The AmmoniCarb Operation Book Format

THE AMMONICARB OPERATION: Meth Made More Easily, Safely, and Reliably The Latest Method by HMLIHYC

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Copyright © 2019 HMLIHYC All rights reserved. ISBN: 9781091091467 ISBN-13: 9781091091467 ii

(1) THE CONTENTS OF THIS DOCUMENT CAN KILL. ACTIONS DESCRIBED IN THIS DOCUMENT HAVE TAKEN LIVES. DO NOT ATTEMPT ANYTHING DEPICTED IN THIS DOCUMENT. THIS IS A WORK OF CREATIVE WRITING INTENDED PURELY FOR EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES. IF THE FOLLOWING SHORT STORY IS MISINTERPRETED AS INSTRUCTIONS, AND THOSE INSTRUCTIONS ARE FOLLOWED, RISK OF DEATH OR DISMEMBERMENT IS EMINENT. IN THE EVENT OF DISASTER, ANY SURVIVORS WILL BE CONVICTED OF FELONY MANUFACTURING OF METHAMPHETAMINE AND WILL SPEND A DECADE IN A FEDERAL PRISON. (2) NOTHING DEPICTED IN THIS DOCUMENT HAS EVER OCCURRED OR SHOULD SHOULD EVER OCCUR. THIS DOCUMENT DOCUMENT IS NOT INTENDED TO MOTIVATE NOR TEMPT ANY PERSON TO IN ANY WAY BECOME INVOLVED IN METHAMPHETAMINE MANUFACTURE, THE USE/TRAFFICKING OF METHAMPHETAMINE, OR INVOLVEMENT INVOLVEMENT IN ANY ILLEGAL ACTIVITY. IF READING READING THIS PROCEDURE MAKES ONE FEEL TEMPTED TO DO ANYTHING ILLEGAL, ONE MUST IMMEDIATELY CEASE READING AND SHOULD SEEK REHABILITATION, THERAPY, OR HOSPITALIZATION. HOSPITALIZATION. (3) METHAMPHETAMINE CAN AND HAS RUINED LIVES. IF ONE HAS EVER USED OR MANUFACTURED METHAMPHETAMINE, OR ANY OTHER ILLEGAL SUBSTANCE, ONE MUST READ NO FURTHER. (4) INTERPRETATION OF THIS SHORT STORY AS AN INSTRUCTIONAL DOCUMENT IS UNDENIABLE PROOF OF PSYCHOSIS OR OTHER SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS.

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(5) POSSESSING THIS DOCUMENT IS NOT A CRIME. PURCHASING THIS DOCUMENT IS NOT A CRIME. READING THIS DOCUMENT IS NOT A CRIME. DISCUSSING THIS DOCUMENT IS NOT A CRIME. THE POSSESSION, PURCHASING, READING, OR DISCUSSION IS DEFINED HERE AS USE. THE USER IS ANY PERSON WHO POSSESSES, PURCHASES, READS, OR DISCUSSES THIS DOCUMENT. USE OF THIS DOCUMENT DOES NOT INCRIMINATE INCRIMINATE THE USER. USE OF THIS DOCUMENT DOES NOT JUSTIFY ISSUANCE OF ANY WARRANTS, NOR DOES IS IT PROBABLE CAUSE TO JUSTIFY ANY SEARCHES OR SEIZURES OF THE USER’S HOME, AUTOMOBILE, PERSON, OR BELONGINGS. THE USER HAS RIGHTS. USE IS PROTECTED BY LAW. USE, HOWEVER, DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY INTENT TO COMMIT A CRIME OR ANY CRIMINAL ACT. COMMITTING ANY ACT DESCRIBED IN THIS DOCUMENT MAY BE A FEDERAL CRIME. (6) ALL INFORMATION BELOW THIS PARAGRAPH IN THIS DOCUMENT IS NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. SERIOUS LY. IT IS IS AN ARTISTIC EXPRESSION. EXPRESS ION. ANY PERCEIVED OR DIRECT ATTITUDES, ADMISSIONS OR OPINIONS THAT MAY SUGGEST INVOLVEMENT OR INTEREST IN ANY ILLEGAL OR IMMORAL ACTIVITY THAT IS PRESENTED BY THE AUTHOR BELOW THIS PARAGRAPH ARE JOKES, AND ANY TEXT THAT PRESENTS INFORMATION AS FACT ARE LIES. ONE READS THIS DOCUMENT AT ONE’S OWN RISK. iv

CONTENTS OF THIS DOCUMENT PAGE 7 - Preemptive Answers to Possible Questions PAGE 8 - This is Not the Only Way PAGE 10 - The Meth Molecule M olecule PAGE 12 Reaction Overview PAGE 13 - Document Overview PAGE 15 - Key Hazards PAGE 18 - Dealing With Cashiers And Pharmacists PAGE 20 - Safety THE REACTION VESSEL PAGE 22 - Selecting the Fex PAGE 23 - Materials Needed for Preparation and Testing of Fex PAGE 24 - Preparation of the New Reaction Vessel PAGE 29 - Testing the Fex PAGE 34 - Cleaning the Fex PAGE 36 - Inspecting the Fex PAGE 38 - Disposal of the Fex REACTION MATERIALS PAGE 39 - Pseudoephedrine HCl PAGE 41 - Smurfing for Pseudoephedrine HCl PAGE 42 - Sodium Hydroxide PAGE 46 - Ammonium Carbonate PAGE 49 - Phase One Reaction Details PAGE 51 - Nonpolar Solvent PAGE 53 - Understanding Nonpolar Solvents PAGE 58 - Lithium PAGE 61 - Muriatic Acid PAGE 63 - Misc. Chemicals PAGE 64 - Non-Chemicals PAGE 66 - Post Material List Notes REACTION PREPARATION PAGE 70 - Preparations that are Not Time Sensitive PAGE 75 - Preparations to be Done Immediately Before Reaction

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PAGE 79 - THE REACTION PAGE 87 - Extraction of Meth from Reaction Fluid PAGE 90 - Finishing the Gasser and Using It PAGE 95 - What to do With Tiny Crystals APPENDICES TO THIS DOCUMENT PAGE 98 - A: Master Material List PAGE 100 - B: Ten Commandments PAGE 102 - C: Alternative Sources for Chemicals PAGE 106 - D: About the Author & History PAGE 110 - E: The Next-Level Reaction Vessel PAGE 113 - F: Assorted Chemistry Notes PAGE 116 - G: Alternative Routes to Meth PAGE 120 - H: d-meth vs. l-meth / Ephedrine vs. Pseudoephedrine PAGE 122 - I: Keeping Clean PAGE 123 - J: Environmental Environmental Impact PAGE 124 - K: Extraction and Use of Propylhexedrine PAGE 130 - L: Molecular Polarity PAGE 137 - M: Quick Procedure PAGE 139 - N: Never N: Never Share Trademarked Names Names PAGE 141 - O: Law Enforcement Tampering of this Guide PAGE 143 - P: Making Other Drugs PAGE 145 - Q: Epsom Salt and other Desiccants PAGE 147 - R: Cuts and Identification of Meth PAGE 149 - S: Contacting HMLIHYC PAGE 149 - T: Final Information

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PREEMPTIVE ANSWERS TO POSSIBLE QUESTIONS This is a comprehensive, educational, educational, and scientific s cientific document that includes a procedure for a new, complete one pot synthesis of methamphetamine from pseudoephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and has emphasis on both hazard awareness awareness and reaction reaction literacy. This This procedure has has been developed to compete compete with the “checklist” style style shake n bake methods found on the internet. Before introducing the reader to the method, an assortment of notes and information must be shared to avert misinterpretation or misuse. APPENDIX N MUST BE READ BEFORE PROCEEDING PAST THIS PAGE.

This procedure is only relevant to those living in the United States. This document will not be adapted across any an y cultural, language, and chemical-market chemical-market boundaries. boundaries. Attempts to adapt this document document are deadly. deadly. One incorrect conversion or material can kill. There is no safe or low-risk way of manufacturing methamphetamine. The author of this procedure would describe describe this method as inherently unsafe from beginning to end , and feels that it is not worth dying, being injured, or going to prison to get four grams of meth.

This procedure cannot be used to make money. money. Batch sizes are are only appropriate for personal use, and the maximum frequency of operation is, realistically, two batches per month.. If one has unlimited access to pseudoephedrine, one should try tr y other methods. The first attempt at this procedure will take about three t hree days (gathering, prepping, execution) and $200-250USD. All attempts after that should cost no more than $30 and can be done in three hours, especially if the operator o perator is proactive and organized.

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The meth produced by this method is exclusively d-meth, known for its superior effects when compared to l-meth or racemic meth (50/50 d/l). All meth is made dirty and impure, and some level of cleaning and processing is mandatory for a pure product product of large crystals. crystals. One pot meth is notoriously notoriously impure, impure, but this is only only due to a lack of cleaning and not due to it being an inherently inferior product. As for discretion, this procedure is decently quiet, does not generate plumes of gas (but requires care and knowledge of the reaction to avoid smells), and does not require a single si ngle online purchase. It can be hidden from neighbors neighbors with care care and mindfulness, but but not from other other residents within within a home. The author of this procedure would not recommend apartment complexes or any kind of shared-wall setup. All materials to be obtained are common household objects and are gathered through cash transactions from brick-and-mortar pharmacies, grocery stores, and hardware stores. All interactions are coached. Thorough understanding understanding of every detail within this document is vital to successful production of methamphetamine, methamphetamine, where success is defined as the operator being alive and not imprisoned during and after the attempt, and with 4 to 5 grams of the good stuff by his or her side.

THIS IS NOT THE ONLY WAY Here is a list of alternatives alternatives to meth manufacture manufacture and use. Please consider them. If the reader is still planning on pursuing this deadly procedure for a few grams of meth, it may be indicative of meth addiction. There is of course no judgment from the author of this procedure, only a fair warning that the love and pursuit of this 8

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drug may get the operator killed or imprisoned.

Prescription amphetamines. The benefit of always being 100% certain of what one is getting is worth more than one might think. It isn’t impossible to get a prescription, and A LOT of people are prescribed this and are more willing to sell it than than to use it themselves.

Propylhexedrine. Propylhexedrine. This is extremely simple to extract from OTC inhalers, is a potent stimulant, and will only run a person $30 per gram. Especially if new to this kind of thing, this is an excellent warmup in researching and attempting clandestine chemistry. It is a legal, easy and cheap tutorial (APPENDIX K) on extractions, working with solvents, and introducing gas to a liquid to form solid crystals (referred to as gassing). DO NOT IV this chemical.

Methcathinone. This is an old-school but apparently fun (though less potent) stimulant whose synthesis is more difficult than an extraction of propylhexedrine, but not nearly as dangerous or involved as making meth. If one wants a very safe warmup to kitchen chemistry or just thinks it would be neat to do something safer, please please investigate investigate this. DO NOT IV this chemical.

Just buy meth. The author knows that the thought of making one’s own is tantalizing for so many reasons, but attempting the manufacture of methamphetamine will bring a more or less permanent fear of law enforcement enforcement into one’s life, if it is not already present.

Other meth manufacturing techniques (APPENDIX G). One need n eed 9

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not limit his or herself to this procedure. Look up a bunch. As one reads about more methods, one will pick up more chemistry. It’s just good all all around. Some other other meth manufacturing manufacturing methods methods are marginally less primed to kill, but all of them are going to increase one’s risk of going to prison.

Treatment. Nobody wants to read this bullet point but keep it in mind. A loss of control means means help is needed, and attempting this procedure is definitive proof of loss of control. There’s no reason to risk health and freedom to feed an addiction, and addiction is very likely the reason the reader is intrigued by this procedure.

THE METH MOLECULE This document is designed for those with no chemistry knowledge. Only enough is taught taught to the reader reader so that he or she knows what’s happening in the reaction, and avoids math, definitions, and and deep theory. theory. All that one should know before before being able to to understand the procedure is presented on this page. First, look at meth on the molecular level.

That’s the guy! Methamphetamine is only this structure, structure, and only this structure is meth. Understanding why it looks like this or what the letters and lines mean is not important. Just know that in a gram of pure meth, there are about 4,000,000,000,000,000,000, 4,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 000 copies of this shape. Pseudoephedrine, Pseudoephedrine, on the other hand, is this. 10


Almost the same, except for the OH crudely added on top! That’s the only difference between this cold medicine and meth. m eth. What this procedure teaches the reader is how to remove the OH from pseudoephedrine, making the best stimulant on Earth, methamphetamine. Of course, the operator of this procedure isn’t just removing one OH from one pseudoephedrine pseudoephedrine molecule. He or she is trying to remove the OH from about thirty-sextillion pseudoephedrine pseudoephedrine molecules. Remember. Making meth isn’t just about what reaction works. The hardest hardest part is making the technique: technique: 1. Fast. Nobody wants wants to sit around around for a six-month reaction to take place. 2. Complete. A reaction that leaves a third of the pseudoephedrine pseudoephedrine unreacted is wasteful wasteful and inefficient. inefficient. 3. Regioselective. Regioselective. If half of the pseudoephedrine pseudoephedrine is turned to meth and the other half turned to sludge, the reaction is either too powerful or not specific enough. 4. As safe as possible. There is never never and will never never be a safe way to make meth, but using a fire extinguisher instead of a soda bottle is a step in the right direction. 5. Resilient. A reaction reaction that gives consistent results despite minor variations in technique can be shared and adapted.

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REACTION OVERVIEW The purpose of the reaction is to change of 5.7 grams pseudoephedrine pseudoephedrine HCl, a common sinus medication, into at least 4 grams of methamphetamine. methamphetamine. The success of the reaction is is called “yield”. 5.2 grams of meth would be 100% yield and is unfortunately impossible. The highest highest realistic result is 85%-90%, 85%-90%, or 4.8-5 grams grams of meth. The average average result will probably probably be a 70% yield, especially for first attempts, and is 4 grams. (If the reader is ering how 100% yield of 5.7g is only 5.2 grams, that’s a keen wond ering eye. Meth weighs slightly slightly less than pseudoephedrine because because that oxygen atom was taken off.) One route to the change (called a reduction) of pseudoephedrine pseudoephedrine to methamphetamine methamphetamine is achieved achieved by a solution of specially made ammonia (anhydrous ammonia, meaning totally free of water), water), lithium metal metal and pseudoephedrine. pseudoephedrine. In pure ammonia, lithium metal dissolves to release free electrons. Two of these electrons (known as solvated electrons) are required to change a molecule of pseudoephedrine pse udoephedrine to methamphetamine. The presence of water disrupts this change , meaning household ammonia (90% water) cannot be used. Unfortunately, Unfortunately, anhydrous ammonia is incredibly dangerous to handle, and suspicious suspicious (or impossible) impossible) to acquire. Without cooling or immense pressure, this pure form of ammonia has the added complication complication of being strictly strictly a gas. Upon cooling to negative 28 Fahrenheit or pressurizing to 150psi (6 times the pressure in an automobile tire) tire) it can be liquefied, liquefied, but will boil back to a deadly, explosive gas as soon as as the high pressure pressure or low temperature changes. So, instead of handling liquid ammonia and its deadly (and suspicious) vapors, a small amount is produced in-situ, meaning within the same vessel that contains the reaction it is intended for. Phase one of the reaction is the addition of ammonium carbonate, sodium hydroxide and a nonpolar solvent to a specially 12


prepared reaction reaction vessel (fire extinguisher). Upon heating the vessel in hot water, ammonium carbonate decomposes to form ammonia gas, and high pressure forces it to be a liquid, which is vital for phase two. Phase two of the reaction is begun by venting the pressure from the vessel, followed by the addition of a strip of lithium and pseudoephedrine pseudoephedrine GUPs (ground up pills). The lithium dissolves into the liquid ammonia and releases the electrons that reduce the pseudoephedrine pseudoephedrine to methamphetamine methamphetamine in an hour hour with agitation (swirling) of the vessel. The reaction is complete at the end of this hour, and the reaction fluid is filtered, treated, and introduced to HCl gas, which forms small crystals of methamphetamine that are then removed from the liquid by filtering. filtering. An acetone rinse followed by a recrystallization produces larger crystals of purified methamphetamine and can be repeated to form even larger crystals. The reaction itself takes two or three hours, and the reaction fluid is turned to very ver y pure methamphetamine powder in an hour. Each recrystallization recrystallization takes about about 8 hours, and at least one is necessary if crystals are desired. Total time for one’s first attempt is adjusted to three days da ys due to the time required to accumulate needed needed materials and prepare for the reaction. DOCUMENT OVERVIEW (THE OVERALL FLOW OF THIS GUIDE) This document is incredibly long, but the reader may rest assured that it isn’t because of a 500 step, super complex procedure. The author of this this procedure merely wants every base covered, every aspect of the reaction detailed, and every hazard explicitly stated. stated. The way a new operator will will approach following following this guide is as followed (and goes along with the order in which 13

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these things are presented). First, the operator will be acquiring, preparing, testing (optional) and and inspecting the fire fire extinguisher. extinguisher. This is the reaction reaction vessel, the thing that allows the magic to happen and the thing that keeps the operator from dying. dying. The fex is the operator’s operator’s baby, baby, new friend, greatest greatest asset and number number one safety device. The sub procedure for for dealing with it is 11 pages or so, but know that one can purchase the fex and have it ready in just a couple hours (testing will add 2 hours or so). Second, the operator will be acquiring all the chemicals and materials needed needed and learning about what they do. This is the bulk of the procedure: the background that the operator SHOULD WANT TO LEARN and instructions for getting the things he or she needs. Included is the procedure for making ammonium carbonate. This takes a few hours but only needs to be done once per 20 attempts if done properly. properly. Also, it is fun to do and shows some of the marvels of elementary chemistry. chemistry. Sodium carbonate is made from baking soda, and ammonium chloride is made from household ammonia and hardware store muriatic acid. Upon heating them together, ammonium carbonate forms. Third, the operator will be setting up his or her workspace and will then dive into the reaction, which takes about 2 ½ hours. This is where most of the danger is, and where ALL these pages of information pay off. Fourth, the operator will be collecting the fluid that comes out of the vessel (pregnant with meth) and turning it into over four grams of the purest, cleanest, highest-potency meth that one can experience. The operator has never had pure meth, no matter how expensive it was or how convincing the salesperson was. This is easily 2x-5x more potent than street meth, burns without a trace and, best of all, WAS MADE BY THE 14


OPERATOR. Fifth, the operator will enjoy this meth responsibly, will understand that 3+ days of consecutive use is detrimental to health and happiness, and will take due care that all his or her tidying up is done, both for safety from chemicals and safety from the law. The author of the procedure understands that the magnitude of this document is intimidating. Think of it this way, if one must: every paragraph of information helps ensure physical safety and MORE METH. Meth manufacturing manufacturing is not always so easy-does-it. easy-does-it. Many attempts at synthesis, from one pot methods to full-scale full -scale mass productions, productions, have produced zero zero methamphetamine. methamphetamine. The exceptionally well-prepared, organized and educated operator can hope for yields yields as high as as 5 grams. By knowing these these chemistry basics presented presented in this guide, an operator can optimize and perfect it until his or her batches yield such generously heavy loads. KEY HAZARDS Every substance, (solid, liquid or gas) in this procedure is primed to kill. Don’t breathe them in. Don ’t touch them. Take them. Take care and have dignity. Here are specific hazards. Explosions. One should stress-test the stainless-steel fire extinguisher before using it for the reaction, but even this does not guarantee safety. This procedure is inherently and unavoidably unsafe. Explosions may result from from mishandling of lithium metal, metal, failure of the reaction vessel, mishandling of solvent, and ammonia (see below). Ammonia. If one has experienced the effects of breathing in concentrated ammonia vapors, one should be able to imagine how powerful anhydrous ammonia vapors are, being at least 10x more potent. One breath of pure ammonia ammonia gas will, at best, make breathing impossible impossible for five to ten seconds and, and, at worst, will immediately and permanently destroy airways, killing the victim. 15

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Sodium Hydroxide. This will slowly burn through skin. If it’s the powder, brush it off quickly and then rinse. The liquid form will immediately produce chemical burns. Don’t let this mix with ammonium carbonate until they meet in the bottom of the fex. Ammonium carbonate. Slowly decomposes to ammonia gas, and if stored above 120 Fahrenheit will decompose, causing detonation of whatever storage container it’s in . Acetone. Don’t inhale it. Don’t let it sit on skin. It can ruin some plastics on contact. Extremely flammable and volatile (evaporates very quickly forming explosive gas). Denatured Alcohol. See Acetone warnings. Lithium. Rule of thumb: if the lithium is currently touching air, the operator needs to be panicking. How long does it take for that strip to catch on fire? Who cares? Pull it out of the battery and keep it in the solvent. Reduce exposure to air and KEEP AWAY FROM WATER. This includes moisture on hands. When the author of this procedure gets the lithium out of the batteries, it is nonstop tunnel vision until about a minute later when the fex is shut tight. If something is going to a) quickly become an unmanageable unmanageable problem and b) alert the authorities, it ’s the act of mishandling lithium, which is a direct result of not taking this list of hazards or safety seriously. Starting Fluid. Ether is extremely flammable. Not just “avoid sparks” flammable. It can explode from the vapors touching the heating element of a stove. Auto ignition at 350 Fahrenheit. HCl solution (muriatic acid) and HCl gas will best case scenario burn lungs and skin. Don ’t spill muriatic acid, and for the gassing step at the end of this procedure, DO NOT breathe the gas in. It will hurt. On contact with eyes, permanent blindness may result. If the operator has decided to use camp fuel for the solvent, it’s less flammable than ether, but still flammable. Open flames and gas stoves are unacceptable anywhere near the above above listed hazards. Smoke a bowl bowl before the reaction reaction 16


starts because there will not be an opportunity to smoke for a few hours. When zoning out between swirls during the reaction it ’s tempting to smoke, but it ’s much safer to avoid any an y flame or spark, even if the smell of solvent or ammonia has not been detected for a while. Don’t leave the room the reaction is going on in. The second that fex is left alone is the second it will tip over, leaving the sodium hydroxide to rapidly eat away at the aluminum valve assembly, which will quickly ruin the valve assembly (meaning a new fex must be be obtained). If it gets left on its side for more than a few minutes, either an explosion or an unstoppable ammonia leak will result. Meth. Whether the reader believes that meth is a wonder drug or not, just keep in mind that this procedure risks life and limb to make something that with chronic, high dose use can affect brain chemistry. chemistry. Do not skip more than two nights nights of sleep. sleep. If one has never been in possession of more than a gram or so of meth at a time, please understand that 4g can last up to a week depending on tolerance and will not be fun after a few days. The hazards of this procedure cannot be understated and will be continually continually presented presented throughout. throughout. Additionally, this is another opportunity for the author of this procedure to repeat a few points touched on on earlier. This procedure was made to put an end to the checklist procedures found online and to bridge the gap between the novice and the elitist drug drug forum users. The fact is that that a person willing willing and committed to make meth has thrown caution to the wind and is going to do it, no matter what guide he or she finds. A similar point goes along with the author’s author’s stance on abortion. Nobody “likes” “likes” abortion, the same way that nobody “likes” “likes” meth. But the simple truth is that when abortions are made inaccessible, the death rate for young women skyrockets. When good good guides guides to making making meth are similarly inaccessible, visits to burn wards similarly increase. As the law pushes the safer and more reliable methods of meth production further further and further away, well-researched well-researched and safetysafety17

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minded sites like like rhodium become become obsolete. This forces the man or woman committed to making meth into the depths of shake n bake videos and checklists found found online. “The law shuts down one chemist and creates 20 cooks,” with no idea of the hazards of the chemicals or their interactions in mind. If one wants to stop people from making meth, one must let the potential meth-maker decide for his or herself that that the procedure is too dangerous. Not only does does making precursors precursors illegal and shutting down manufacturers hurt meth availability (ha, ha! says the Man), it endangers those afflicted with the disease of addiction: those that for one reason or another cannot recognize the severity of the threat of losing losing fingers, eyesight, eyesight, or life. So, it’ s up to a guide that literally instructs one on how to MAKE meth to be the only resource to properly convey the DANGERS of making meth. The author must must plead with the addict to not follow this guide, knowing that the only chance of the author’s messages being heard is if they’re sprinkled intermittently throughout the guide itself. itself. This is not just legal legal protection for for the author when when the author says DO NOT FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS. SEEK HELP. DO NOT NOT MAKE MAKE METH. DEALING WITH CASHIERS AND PHARMACISTS The reader may have already begun work on a way to discretely purchase the required items online using networks of friends or unsuspecting relatives. relatives. The author of this procedure asks that the reader stop this foolishness and read this page carefully. Online purchases leave a 100% permanent trail leading to the operator. operator. The website, its advertisers, the bank, those that may gain access to the account, and the computer itself are just a few of the entities that have a record of of each online sale. sale. Asking a friend to order something for the operator just means the cops are going to a) have the operator’s name (the friend will crack) and b) now be 100% certain the purchased item is intended for illegal use. 18


The author of this procedure has been a cashier in the past at several stores and knows the thoughts and attitudes of those that one must face face to purchase items items for making meth. The message of this page is: do not be afraid, nobody knows or cares that meth is being made . The cashier does does not care about about anybody. The cashier has has mentally abandoned the physical world within thirty minutes of his or her shift, and does not see faces, items, or body language. language. Even if the purchaser purchaser is clearly nervous, nervous, the cashier doesn’t care. The cashier just hopes that the cus tomer doesn’t argue when asked for his or her rewards rewards card or phone phone number. With all the elderly elderly customers giving cashiers shit all day, the operator’s silence will be appreciated. appreciated. Cashiers are not given special sp ecial instructions on handling suspicious purchases. purchases. They are generally uneducated uneducated and would be more likely likely to cause a scene scene and get the store sued than to stop an AMMONICARB operator. 98% of cashiers know nothing about meth and think about it precisely NEVER while at work. And, of the remaining 2%, 1% make meth themselves and 1% are suspicious but have no way of communicating that to any manager without risking his his or her own job. Confrontation of customers is is an absolute last-resort measure that only applies to theft. The answer to any question from a cashier about what one purchases is, “I don’t know, it’s not for me.” Try to look sleepy (don’t squint eyes), wear sweat pants, and appear irritable . Purchase no more than 3 things in one trip, including no more than one major chemical . Break the purchases up into 5-7 trips, spend cash only, refuse the receipt if possible, and shoot for busy bus y times of day and weekends. At 6am there are twenty associates associates walking around and only 3 customers. One can even hit the same store twice in one day, if done at busy times. Don’t steal anything. Getting caught stealing these items means the thief is on a permanent shit-list of potential meth 19

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manufacturers. As for pharmacists, pharmacists, the same applies. They don’t care. care. Buying a box of tissues with pseudoephedrine pseudoephedrine is pathetic. Many pseudoephedrine pseudoephedrine sales go to making making meth, they know this, they see sketchy people every day, and they’re there to make money, not to be the hero hero that single-handedly single-handedly defeats meth. meth. Remember: cashiers, store managers, and pharmacists will not call the cops. They do not care, and 99% of the time store policy makes them unable.

SAFETY The author of this material does not include steps for donning protective equipment because the author understands that any person who values his or her own safety will know to do them without being told, and also understands that any person who does not value his or her own safety will simply refuse no matter how many times he or she is told. A full-face respirator during the reaction is absolutely recommended. recommended. Ammonia gas will attack not only airways but but anything “wet,” meaning one’s one’s eyeballs as well. Permanent blindness is common common if one manages manages to survive survive direct ammonia ammonia exposure. The respirator respirator will be sold at hardware stores stores (and is only really meant to block paint fumes) and can grant the operator a few more seconds of life in an emergency. IF, WHILE WEARING THE RESPIRATOR, ONE SMELLS AMMONIA, DO NOT TAKE THE RESPIRATOR OFF TO SEE HOW BAD THE SITUATION IS. IS. ONE MUST IMMEDIATELY IMMEDIATELY RUN. RESPIRATORS FAIL ALL AT ONCE, MEANING ONE BREATH THAT SMELLS VAGUELY OF AMMONIA MEANS THE NEXT BREATH WILL BE FULL-ON AMMONIA. NOTE: HAVING A BEARD BEARD WILL ALSO CAUSE WHIFFS OF AMMONIA THAT MAY NOT BE DUE TO RESPIRATOR FAILURE. SHAVE BEFORE PERFORMING PERFORM ING 20


THIS PROCEDURE TO ENSURE A SNUG FIT OF THE RESPIRATOR. Long sleeves and pants that are easily removable (but not baggy) are important. important. Gloves, especially especially during gassing (discussed later), are important. Dish gloves are fine, but acetone may dissolve them, so keep them away from that solvent (and any other solvents, just to be safe). Flip-flops and bare feet are bad ideas, as this procedure will should wear shoes that won’t won’t make one nervous and sweaty. One should slip easily. Every motion motion should be be done carefully. carefully. Every material material should be within view and easily seen, as whipping back and forth looking for whatever it may be increases chances of knocking things over. If the operator refuses to purchase a respirator, he or she glasses of some sort. Losing one’s eyesig ht is just should wear glasses terrible, and while an operator can easily brush sodium hydroxide h ydroxide off skin and avoid burns, the surface of the eye is practically designed to absorb chemicals. If anything gets in the eye e ye during this, or if the operator op erator even THINKS something MAY HAVE gotten in an eye, hold that t hat eye open under cold running water for five minutes at least. The author is squeezing this note somewhere random. Get a VPN and do searches with an anonymous search engine. Cyber security is not the author’s field of expertise, but a VPN and anonymous search engine should be plenty to keep the law away from THE AMMONICARB. THE NEXT PAGE BEGINS ALL INFORMATION ON THE REACTION REACTION VESSEL/FEX/FIRE VESSEL/FEX/FIRE EXTINGUISHER. EXTINGUISHER. IT IS A SUB-PROCEDURE AND IS NOT “IN ORDER” WITH THE REST OF THIS DOCUMENT. ACQUIRE ALL ALL MATERIALS AND KNOW THIS PROCEDURE WELL BEFORE BEGINNING THE FOLLOWING SUBPROCEDURE. 21

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SELECTION OF A REACTION VESSEL Bolded words below are descriptors that must be included included with the fire extinguisher

* STAINLESS-STEEL fire extinguisher. The perfect stainlesssteel fire extinguisher is available IN STORES at one of the big chains where where a lot of these these supplies will probably probably come from. The author of this procedure refuses to name brands or stores. Figure it out. Look carefully and it will reveal reveal itself. It’s so perfect, GET ONE.

STAINLESS-STEEL extinguishers make meth. ALUMINUM extinguishers extinguish ers make bombs. DO NOT GET ANYTHING BUT STAINLESS-STEEL. If the operator dodges the flying aluminum, he or she will then have the pleasure of dying from ammonia exposure while the lithium catches the solvent on fire and burns down the house. If the reader wants to be alive to see some meth, the vessel must be stainless-steel. Anyway: Anyway: the fire extinguisher should be the “regular size/ 5lb ” type (not the one-handed one for twenty bucks. It’s the size of a 2L drink bottle.), ABC/dry chemical , STAINLESS STEEL, and have an operating pressure ideally of 200psi, meaning that it comes out the box proving it can hold 2/3 of the required pressure. If the fire extinguisher has a lower operating pressure, find out what pressure it was tested to and ensure that it was tested for higher pressure. 99% chance it was, but don’t risk it. The max test pressure pressure will ideally ideally have been been at least 500psi. It also needs to be b e rechargeable. It also needs to have 22


the spray hose attached (some don’t come with it) and a pressure gauge. It must be a fex that has a hose. All these aspects of the fex are critical to safety. DO NOT BE AFRAID to call the manufacturer from a payphone and give them the model number of the extinguisher and make sure it ’s all correct if there is a doubt. When the perfect fex is selected, read every bit of information on it available to be sure there is no conflicting or missing information. Do not use any any used or salvaged salvaged extinguisher. extinguisher. If it has sat sat on the ground, it will be rusted (very (ver y hard to detect with that red paint) and will explode. New extinguishers ONLY. OTHER ONE POT METHODS AKA SHAKE N BAKE HAVE LOW ENOUGH PRESSURE TO MAKE PLASTIC BOTTLES USABLE. THIS PROCEDURE DOES NOT. PRESSURE WILL APPROACH 300PSI, DOUBLE THE PRESSURE OF A SHAKE-N-BAKE. A PLASTIC BOTTLE WITH DECOMPOSING AMMONIUM CARBONATE IN IT WILL EXPLODE. AMMONIA GAS WILL NOT STOP FORMING. THE OPERATOR WILL BE SEVERELY BURNT AND IMPRISONED FOR FELONY MANUFACTURING MANUFACTURIN G OF METHAMPHETAM METHAMPHETAMINE. INE. THIS REACTION REQUIRES A FIRE EXTINGUISHER REACTION VESSEL. MATERIALS FOR PREPARATION AND TESTING OF REACTION VESSEL (FEX) For preparation A wire coat hanger or thin, flexible rod. Any consumer-grade rust remover that is designed for soaking parts. Paper towels * A kitchen sink An oven A razor/scissors * 23

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For testing (optional) An extension cord (very long) An electric skillet A wash cloth * A back yard Binoculars A way to measure 300ml (canning jars are perfect) p erfect) * A pot of water * NP solvent * 103g Ammonium carbonate * 100g Sodium hydroxide * 5-gallon bucket * Muriatic acid * Materials with asterisks (*) are required for reaction procedure as as well, meaning their explanations and and preparations are explained AFTER AFTER the reaction vessel pages. If one does does not know what “NP solvent” solvent” is, rest assured that it is explained explained later. This material list is simply given separate for reference when beginning preparation and and testing of the the reaction vessel. vessel. Again, it is a subsub procedure within within the main procedure. procedure. Non-asterisked materials materials will not be listed in the reaction materials list but will be listed in the master materials list (Appendix A).

PREPARATION PREPARATION OF THE NEW REACTION VESSEL The more carefully this sub-procedure is followed, the more meth the operator will receive upon the first attempt. The first attempt is especially sensitive to the proper use of this sub-procedure.

expect to get get This preparation takes a couple hours. Don’t expect it done immediately before beginning the reaction procedure, as the operator will be bored and in a hurry by the time it’s done and will leave moisture moisture or other crap in the reaction reaction vessel. A good 24


time to do this preparation is while preparing the ammonium carbonate and and other materials. If the operator operator has read read this guide carefully, managing multiple preparations preparations at once should be easy. 1. Sit on the floor cradling the fire extinguisher upside down inside a tall kitchen bag. Preferably have the hose removed, and don’t forget to pull the pin. Don’t lose the pin, as it’s good to keep in the handle during the reaction to avoid deadly ammonia releases. 2. Very gently squeeze the trigger. It will make a strange but not loud sound. Some white powder will come out and should be caught by the bag. If the fex was right side up, the operator would have an unmanageable unmanageable mess. The powder is irritating. Avoid it. It’ll float in the air for a while if care isn’t taken to keep it in the bag. 3. Keep doing this until the pressure gauge reads 0. When it does, squeeze that handle all the way down to make sure the fex will not produce a cloud cloud of white garbage garbage when unscrewing unscrewing the top. 4. Unscrew the top of the extinguisher (this is the valve assembly: the piece that is the combination of the valve body, valve (internal), the handle, the pressure gauge, and the nozzle with attached hose) after turning it right side up. If the extinguisher is not dry chemical or not rechargeable, this may be impossible to open without tools that the operator certainly does not possess. The valve assembly won’t crumble if the operator touches it wrong, but it should only be twisted open or shut by applying pressure to the handle. When the valve assembly is off, cutoff/otherwise cutoff/otherwise remove the plastic or metal stem that descends into the body of the fex from the bottom of the valve assembly and save it (it will be used as a solvent dryer later). THE MOMENT THE INNER STEM IS REMOVED, THE 25

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OPERATOR IS NO LONGER IN POSSESSION OF A FIRE EXTINGUISHER. EXTINGUISHER. IT IS NOW CLANDESTINE EQUIPMENT INTENTIONALLY MANUFACTURED FOR THE PURPOSE OF ILLEGALLY MANUFACTURING METHAMPHETAMINE.. THERE IS NO SAFE WAY TO METHAMPHETAMINE DISPOSE OF THIS DEVICE.

5. Turn the extinguisher back over and spend a LONG time emptying out the powder. This part sucks. Preparing the fire extinguisher is not fun and it does not motivate the operator to continue the procedure. Just keep moving. 6. Take the body of the fex and the entire valve assembly to the sink. First rinse the body and get ALL the crap out. Find a way to attach a paper towel to a stick or wire hanger and jam it into the body and really really rub the hell out out of the walls. Don’t use sandpaper. 7. Stand the fex body up and fill it to the brim with the chemical rust remover (dilute with water). If the operator is now confused because his his or her extinguisher extinguisher has no rust rust (or rust-like tarnish), tarnish), then the operator may have an aluminum extinguisher. Maybe the fire extinguisher company likes to waste money making the inside tarnish-free. The author of this procedure has not personally looked inside of every fire extinguisher ever made. But if it looks like the inside of a soft drink can, it’s just going to freak the operator out and may as well be thrown away (before step 4) and replaced unless the operator operator has some way way to prove that it is steel. Anyway. The reason for rust removal is, again, that rust will make the lithium ammonia solution unreactive. unreactive. If the operator operator decides to skip this step or not do it properly, the first batch will produce no meth. 8. If the inside of the fex body isn ’t perfect and pristine and shiny stainless steel after the derusting, don’t worry about it. Just rinse 26


ALL OF THE CHEMICAL RUST REMOVER OUT. IT WILL BEST CASE SCENARIO RUIN THE REACTION. Leaving even a smear or stain of that trade-secret soup will not have happy or safe results. 9. Run water through the hose attached to the valve assembly. Now squeeze the trigger and continue running water through. Alternate squeezing and releasing to make sure water eliminates all traces of that dry chemical. When the water runs clear, run it i t through the other opening of the valve assembly (where the operator cut the stem off) until it runs clear. 10. Place the clean but unfortunately very wet fex body (NO VALVE ASSEMBLY ATTACHED) ATTACHED) into the oven and bake it for an hour at 250 Fahrenheit. It must be very, very dry. The reaction produces a bit of water, but otherwise this procedure carefully carefully controls moisture unlike other one pot procedures. If everything is all wet and wild in there and the operator doesn ’t care about moisture, it will make ammonia production start instantly, i.e. before the operator operator can get the valve assembly back on (a step that that becomes significantly significantly more difficult difficult when the operator’s eyes and lungs stop working). The operator is smart enough to t o understand that there’s no way to make the reaction perfectly dry, and that drying the fex in the oven could be frivolous given the water generated by ammonium carbonate, but do it. It’s easy . 11. Jam a paper towel as deep as possible into the valve assembly from all angles, but don’t lose any paper towel bits inside of it. The operator really needs to dry that thing out. This is a tedious process but must be done carefully. carefully. Let’s say a necessar y pressure release during the reaction is mistakenly done too enthusiastically. enthusiastically. The first reactant finding its way out is a mixture of lithium in ammonia, ready ready to detonate on contact with water. The operator would prefer that it make a tiny explosion in the acid trap, not in 27

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the valve assembly, which has many characteristics in common with a hand grenade. Tap the water out, shake it out, but don’t use air from the mouth to blow water out as this is very moist air that will deposit a nice wet layer over every conceivable surface of the inside of the valve. Remove the hose and dry it, too. 12. Tear/cut a wad of steel wool large enough to be jammed into the bottom of the valve assembly (i.e. the place where the operator cut the stem off). DON’T JAM IT TOO DEEP, just be certain it can’t fall out. While the fex body is stainless steel and impervious to the chemicals used in this method, the valve assembly is most likely aluminum. This means the operator wants the absolute minimum contact between any reactants and the valve. The steel wool makes it harder for reactants to touch the valve directly and will also keep reactants from spraying out of the nozzle during depressurization depressurization (although if the operator releases pressure too quickly, reactants will still shoot out. Not good.) The addition of this steel wool bit is a very important and very easily forgotten step. The operator will forget to add it, then remember during one of the swirls the valve is naked, and will be paranoid that the valve could blow up at any moment. Not a good feeling. Additionally, swirling during the reaction instead of shaking up and down also avoids unnecessary contact. NEVER NEVER tilt or lay the fex sideways or upside down during the reaction. IF THE WOOL IS TOO DEEP, THE VALVE MAY FAIL. DON’T SCREW IT UP. 13. Check that there is no visible residue in the fex body or valve assembly. Reassemble the extinguisher by screwing the valve v alve assembly back into the body. The operator now has a clean, dry, prepped reaction reaction vessel that will will hang out until the rest of of the prep is complete. The operator can leave the nozzle hose part on or off for now if it helps with storing the vessel; it ’s up to him or her. Just don’t lose it. If there are reactants in the fire extinguisher, he or she better have that hose on and better better have an acid bucket nearby. nearby. 28


This will be a good feeling, even better than the feeling of looking at all the gathered materials when shopping is complete. Now, think of this vessel as aging aging very, very slowly. When it has reactants or water in it, it is aging very, very quickly. quickly. As it gets “older,” it becomes less dependable and more deadly. How many attempts is it good for? The author of this material doesn’t know. More than ten, ten, less than ten thousand. Inspections should should be made after every cleaning, but no inspection can guarantee that there isn’t some small fissure or flaw that will fail catastrophically under pressure and kill. The author of this procedure will not stop giving giving these reminders: there is NO WAY to make this reaction safe . TESTING THE FEX (OPTIONAL) It is up to the operator to make make any outdoor work work discrete. If there are neighbors nearby, nearby, don’t come come up with excuses. Only do this where nobody will see. see. In the event of explosion explosion or ammonia release, clean up quickly, go inside, and refuse any searches. This was simply simply a science project involving involving a fire extinguisher, not manufacturing meth.

The author of this procedure hates to call this part of the procedure optional optional but understands understands that it is impossible for some some operators to do. The stress-test described described below takes takes this deadly procedure and and makes it about as safe as driving a car on the freeway. Do it if able. able. The weakest points of the fire extinguisher are all at the top, in and around around the valve valve assembly. The valve itself can freeze and break, the pressure gauge could shoot out, the body of it may crack, any rubber or plastic plastic o ring or gasket gasket can blow, etc. This means that if the reaction vessel fails, it most likely will do so in a non-explosive non-expl osive way. It is very unlikely for the body of the fex to explosively decompress (becoming a fragmentation grenade) when compared to the chance of it simply blowing a gasket and loudly 29

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losing pressure (in which case the operator plunges it upside down into the acid bucket). This stress-test is designed to see if the vessel is reliable. It uses a little bit more gas and a little longer exposure to heat to be sure that the fex can not only handle the reaction, but not be at the absolute brink of explosion during it. Relax: the fex has about a 0.0001% chance of failing this test if it’s the right one. F ire extinguishers are all tested to 120 Fahrenheit and the one the operator purchased should have been tested to hold 600psi, roughly double the pressure used in this procedure. But, because the vessel was not designed for the chemicals or temperature used by the procedure, this guide recommends that ALL possibilities be accounted for, which is a task that can only be taken on with a stress-test. Sodium hydroxide ensures it’s stainless -steel, ammonium carbonate pressurizes the vessel, and the solvent corrects volume. Essentially, a felony-free version of the reaction is done, accounts for potential carelessness of the operator, and ensures that a faulty fex explodes thirty feet away from the operator rather than within his or her hand. Of course, careful inspection must must be done after after this testing. Just because the fex fex didn’t explode doesn’t mean it wasn’t damaged damaged by the stress test. test. Instructions for inspections are a few pages pages down. 1. Prepare an acid trap by pouring 1/3 of a gallon of muriatic acid into a five-gallon five-gallon bucket ¾ full of water. water. The acid trap neutralizes neutralizes vented ammonia, producing harmless ammonium chloride. 2. Bring a pot of water (3in depth) to a boil on an electric skillet in a back yard or as far away from civilization as possible. In the home on the stove is okay, but know that this test is designed to avoid property damage and that doing it in the t he home removes this feature.

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3. Place 103g ammonium carbonate, 300ml nonpolar solvent, 100g sodium hydroxide inside of the vessel and quickly quickly seal it. The 103 grams must be measured VERY, VERY, VERY PRECISELY. PRECISELY. 104g is NOT OKAY. OKAY. 102g is NOT OKAY. 4. Place the sealed fex/fire extinguisher/reaction vessel on top of a folded rag into the boiling water. Be sure that it is stable (during (during reaction procedure, it is held the entire time) and that t hat there is no metal of the fex contacting the metal of the pot. With no metal contact, the fex can only get get to 212 Fahrenheit. Fahrenheit. With metal on metal contact, temperatures of 500 Fahrenheit (and WITHOUT A DOUBT AN EXPLOSION) are possible. Don’t skimp on the rag . 5. Back away quickly, at least 20 or 30 feet from the fex with the pressure gauge visible. 6. Watch the pressure pressure gauge with binoculars. It should slowly and “overpressurized” then very rapidly go up, then should stop in the “overpressurized” zone at around around 300-350psi. Let it sit at this pressure in boiling water for about five minutes. 7. Unplug the electric electric skillet. Watch the pressure. pressure. It should go down as the gases cool, but any sudden or dramatic lowering of pressure means means the vessel failed and is unusable. unusable. 8. After thirty minutes, or whenever the pressure stops decreasing (it should only lower to around the 200psi mark) approach the fex. Slowly lift it from the water and bring it to the acid bucket. 9. Put the hose as deep beneath the acid as possible WITHOUT tipping the fex. 10. VERY GENTLY GENTLY release release pressure. Once the pressure reading is 0psi, gently gently compress handle handle all the way. way. This should start the the boiling of the ammonia.

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11. Leave fex until until pressure pressure reaches 150psi. Vent again. Repeat until pressure stops rising. This should ideally ideally take 3 or 4 venting cycles. 12. From here, repeat the instructions ins tructions for CLEANING THE FEX and INSPECTING THE FEX, which should both be done any time the fex fex is used. used. Again, do it well, or miss out on meth. meth. Nobody wants to miss out on meth. 13. If it passes inspection, inspection, congratulations. congratulations. If it fails, which which it really shouldn’t, then following the DISPOSAL OF FEX instructions instructi ons is MANDATORY. DO NOT USE A FAILED FEX UNLESS PROBLEM CAN BE 100% CORRECTED. BELOW BEGINS THE CLEANING PROCEDURE FOR THE FEX. IF CLEANING CLEANING THE FEX AFTER THE STRESS-TEST, IT IT SHOULD REQUIRE ONLY ONE ALCOHOL RINSE AND ONLY THREE WATER RINSES. OTHERWISE, FOLLOW THE PROCEDURE EXACTLY AS WRITTEN. CLEANING THE FEX This must be done done before disposing disposing of the acid bucket. If not, the the operator must either remake the bucket or pour muriatic acid into the toilet for 4 seconds and use it as an acid bucket. CLEANING THE FEX SEEMS EASY BUT IS VERY DANGEROUS. DANGEROUS. REMEMBER. NEVER SQUEEZE THE HANDLE WITHOUT THE HOSE BEING IN ACID. NEVER UNSCREW THE VALVE ASSEMBLY UNLESS IT HAS BEEN VENTED IN THE LAST 30 SECONDS. 1. Go to the bathroom and grab the denatured alcohol and the dirty, dirt y, freshly vented fex. There should be tons of the alcohol left over. 2. Open the fex. If it ’s been more than 30 seconds since it was 32


vented, put the tube into the toilet and squeeze the trigger. The regular water will still capture some of the smell. 3. If gloves are available, wear them. Otherwise have lots of paper towels. 4. Once the fex is open, pour a healthy amount of denatured alcohol into it. Maybe 1/5 of the container. Swish this around and, without letting it settle, pour this into the toilet and immediately flush. Ideally the toilet would be flushing before beginning pouring, but no big deal. 5. Mineral spirits can be used and is on some level safer and less smelly, but getting the shit out of the fex is a pain. It’s oily. 6. Repeat this process. After the second or third rinse, when the alcohol comes out clearish, it’s safe to reach in and pull out the piece of steel steel wool. Run it under under some water water or swish it in the toilet and set it aside. It won’t explode. 7. The biggest hazard here is the off chance that there ’s still unreacted lithium in there. It ’ll be nasty when it hits the toilet. Just be flushing and and praying and it’ll be fine. Ideally the alcohol will keep any leftover lithium safe from water long enough to go down the pipes. But, there really shouldn’t be any leftover lithium, especially if the reaction was done a few hours ago. 8. Once the fex stops reeking of ammonia and starter fluid, the operator can transition to rinses with water. Easiest way is to fill from the tub, swirl, and pour into the toilet. Periodically inspect (without breathing in leftover ammonia) the inside of the fex for any reactants stuck in there. 9. There’s never a safe time to stick one’s nose into the fex and 33

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“smell if it’s clean”. Don’t do that. It ’s going to take a handful of alcohol rinses and probably fifteen water rinses. Use cold water to discourage any lingering reactants from mixing and either producing latent latent ammonia or burning one’s nose hairs off.

10. When satisfied, set the fex body aside and run water through the valve assembly from both ends like when first prepping the fex. 11. That That fex is the reason the operator is alive. Treat it well. Dry it in the oven again. 12. Remember that the fex ages nice and slowly only when clean and dry. Don’t let let water sit in it. Rust is slow, and the fex is stainless steel, but having sitting water in it means subjecting the vessel to conditions it was not designed for. It’s just not worth it. Dry the shit out. AT LEAST leave it upside down with the valve assembly off so excess water can drain out if oven drying is not currently an option. 13. Put it somewhere. somewhere. It cannot cannot easily easily be hidden from a raid. raid. It is permanent evidence. If one wants wants to avoid a lifetime of carrying carrying this thing around, study and plan the DISPOSING OF THE FEX steps below. APPENDIX E CONTAINS SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENTS THAT THE EXCEPTIONALLY PASSIONATE OPERATOR MAY UNDERTAKE. THESE INCLUDE PASSIVATION OF METAL, DETONATIONPROOFING, PROOFING, ETC.

INSPECTING THE FEX AND SIGNS OF FAILURE This should be performed after the initial preparation of the fex, after the stress-test of the fex, and after every attempt at the 34


reaction procedure. procedure. This should only be done after a thorough cleaning to avoid ammonia exposure. If a whistling sound is heard during operation, gas if felt escaping, or ammonia smell smell is suddenly detected, a gasket gasket has failed. If this is mid-ammonia production, plunge vessel into ice bucket and vent gas into acid bucket. bucket. Maintain pressure pressure at zero psi until all ammonia has left system. If there is a danger of molten lithium, leave in ice bucket for 24 hours and continually vent any pressure before moving to cleaning and disposal steps. IF A BULGE OR CRACK APPEARS IN FEX, TOSS UPSIDE DOWN INTO ACID BUCKET AND RUN. THIS COULD EXPLODE AT ANY MOMENT WITHOUT ADDITIONAL WARNING. GET EVERYBODY OUT OF THE HOUSE. HOUSE. DO NOT RETURN FOR 24 HOURS. HOURS. BASK IN THE REGRET OF NOT PERFORMING PERFORMING A STRESS-TEST. 1. Remove the valve assembly and view from every angle, looking for cracks or erosion. Inspect behind the pressure gauge and where the handle handle attaches. attaches. Inspect the hose attachment. 2. Inspect the threading (the part that screws into the extinguisher body). If the threads threads are caked caked with shit, wipe it off. If the threading looks lumpy or textured, textured, it fails inspection. inspection. It should be smooth. Check the black black o-ring carefully, carefully, as this is what what will most likely fail. If it has tears tears or nicks, call the manufacturer, manufacturer, ask for for a replacement, know the model number, and have it shipped to somebody else. It should be free and they should not n ot require any “real” information about the caller. 3. Use a flashlight to inspect inspect the valve. Squeeze the handle handle and ensure that the valve (visible from where the stem was removed) goes in and out along with the handle. 4. Use a flashlight and inspect inspect the inner body. Look for unusual unusual 35

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patterns, like spots that have no corrosion whereas whereas the rest of it does. Look for welds that are inconsistent. 5. Look on the outside of the body for any missing paint or dents, especially on on the bottom. Missing paint means means rust will quickly quickly begin forming. forming. 6. DO NOT NOT test pressurization by adding dry ice to the vessel. DO NOT take this to a fire station station to recharge, recharge, as the removed removed stem and clean body makes this immediately suspicious. 7. DO NOT NOT remove new rust with more rust remover. If new rust rust is present, the fex is compromised and fails inspection. DISPOSAL OF FEX This is a legally legally dangerous undertaking. undertaking. If one is under suspicion of manufacturing methamphetamine, it is incredibly risky. There are two two options, one being being completely psychotic and the other being being only slightly less psychotic. It is safer to place the fex in a box in the attic, take it wherever one moves to, and die with it in one’s p ossession. Soak the valve assembly in bleach for twenty-four hours. Soak the body in bleach for twenty-four hours after rinsing it twenty times with hot water and dish soap. Psychotic disposal Wait until trash day. Put the fex in a garbage bag surrounded by trash that has no fingerprints, meth or DNA on it (use gloves). Throw it away without garbage collectors seeing, but but as close to their arrival as as possible. Watch them pull pull away (discretely) and be sure that trash from five or more houses is fex. This means that that the law isn’t interested interested in collected after the fex. looking through the operator’s trash. If cop s stop the garbage truck and dig through it, the operator must get things in order to be 36


arrested. Disposal of this device carries carries its own charges charges along with guaranteeing one’s felony meth manufacturing charges. Thorough but still psychotic disposal Go on a camping camping trip with the fex. If somebody notes the pressure gauge being at zero psi, psi, a safe thing thing to mention is that that it just arrived by mail and that the operator had no idea it came came uncharged, followed followed by an “oh well.” well.” This is not the trip to dispose of it. Leave with it. If nobody noticed the fex, wait until night. Go into the woods, without the fex, and dig a very v ery deep and narrow hole in a place where somebody might might expect human waste to be buried. buried. Once the hole is dug successfully, venture back and grab the fex, put it underground underground upside down, down, and push dirt on top of it. If one is caught while digging the hole, one could have a ring or necklace with them that one suggests is too painful to hold on to and thus must be buried deep underground. If one is caught while pushing dirt over the fex (that he or she remembers to NOT TOUCH WITH BARE HANDS), then one must use his or her own cleverness to escape the situation, as the author of this procedure has no experience with this specific possibility. THE NEXT PAGE BEGINS THE LIST OF ALL OTHER MATERIALS AND THEIR PREPARATIONS PREPARATIONS NECESSARY FOR THE REACTION.

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REACTION MATERIALS CHEMICALS PSEUDOEPHEDRINE PSEUDOEPHEDRINE HCL Pseudoephedrine Pseudoephedrine HCl is a cold medicine that can only be store bought by asking the pharmacist for it. The purchaser must present his or or her ID to be scanned, and and the purchaser must then sign for it. There are daily limits on purchases and and monthly limits, limits, and it is believed that maxing out one’s daily limit two days in a row is a good way to have a detective come ask about allergy season. Also, before before anybody gets confused, confused, in writing, writing, pseudoephedrine pseudoephedrine and pseudoephedrine pseudoephedrine HCl can be used interchangeably. interchangeably. Nobody says the “HCl” “HCl” part out loud. The author of this procedure tries to use pseudoephedrine when discussing it as a product and types t ypes the HCl after it if discussing the actual chemical. DO NOT go get pseudoephedrine HCl yet. First, the operator must READ AND UNDERSTAND pseudoephedrine pseudoephedrine purchasing and and possession laws laws on the state and and federal levels. levels. Next, the operator operator must use common sense on on what might look suspicious. suspicious. Yes, the pseudoephedrine pseudoephedrine list is a joke, but if a cop decides to snoop around for some reason and then finds suspicious purchases, they may snoop harder. DO NOT read past this line until pseudoephedrine state and federal laws are understood. Now that the operator is an an expert on pseudoephedrine pseudoephedrine law all he or she needs is to know what kind is preferred. Say, “the big box of [{[name brand]}] congestion.” Actually say the name brand, and if they ask if the generic generic is fine, say yes. Asking for the big box ensures ensures there are 96 pills, and the keyword congestion congestion ensures that they are little red 30mg pills with no extra medicines/active medicines/active ingredients. It comes out to 2.88g of pure pseudoephedrine pseudoephedrine HCl. 12 hour or 24 hour variations can be used used too, but these are more likely to have painkillers or antihistamines 38


slapped alongside the pseudoephedrine HCl. Wait a week to get the second box, or get a trusted friend to get it. If the operator wants to smurf pseudoephedrine, pseudoephedrine, it is done at least one hour out of town, and it is done for exactly one big box of [{[brand name]}] congestion congestion. Not two. Never be outside of the house with more than than one box of pseudoephedrine. pseudoephedrine. See below smurfing tips. Now, let’s say the pha rmacist is handing the box to the operator, who is alert and notices another active ingredient besides pseudoephedrine pseudoephedrine HCl. Quickly, politely, politely, and boldly, boldly, ask the pharmacist if there are any with only pseudoephedrine. pseudoephedrine. If the pharmacist says says yes, good. If he or she hesitates or says says no, the operator says, says, “that’s okay,” and leaves. Not worth it. When the operator is in possession of two big boxes which is 188 pills which is 5.7g pseudoephedrine HCL, put them in separate areas of the house and don’t open them. The operator should not pop the pills out of the blisters (that part sucks) until a day or so before before the reaction. reaction. Trivia: Because Because meth is just pseudoephedrine pseudoephedrine with the oxygen oxygen removed, that means that meth technically only has one ingredient, which is pseudoephedrine! SMURFING FOR PSEUDOEPHEDRINE Smurfing for pseudoephedrine is the act of going up to strangers and and asking them to purchase purchase a box. box. The author of this procedure has has some tips on smurfing. smurfing. Smurfing is risky, risky, as the stranger could be a cop, could be a jackass that calls the cops, or at the very least somebody that could remember the operator’s face. Smurfing is to be avoided if possible. Getting caught with more than one box of pseudoephedrine (walking OR driving) puts one on the shit-list of possible meth manufacturers. This means immediate and total retirement retirement is mandatory. The story given to cops about about having two sick friends 39

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who both asked asked for pseudoephedrine is not going going to work. Don’t get caught. The responsible operator will not smurf in the town that he or she lives in. The responsible operator will will drive at least least thirty minutes to an hour away. The responsible operator will smurf exactly one box before going home. Hanging around is a good way to get caught. caught. The responsible operator will approach somebody in the parking lot lot and say, “I’ll give you $25 for a big box of generic [{[brand name]}] name]}] congestion.” The responsible responsible operator then takes refusal as his or her cue to immediately leave and to find a different pharmacy. If the operator is successful, he or she gives the agreed upon money, gets in his or her car and drives back home. If the operator is caught with one box of pseudoephedrine, he or she has not committed a crime and should say that somebody in his or her town offered $60 $60 for a box. box. The operator acts very afraid of law enforcement and pretends to have no idea about his or her rights. The operator informs informs the officer officer that he or she was instructed to come come to this pharmacy. pharmacy. The operator offers offers to give the pseudoephedrine to the officer and says it isn’t worth it anyway. If details about the operator are written down or if the officer acts suspicious, even that one box can put the operator on the shit-list. It’s better not to smurf, or to fin d a more experienced smurfer. Flying too close to the Sun (on (on wings made of doing-this procedure-more-than-one-should) procedure-more-than-one-should) is the best way to get busted. The criminal mastermind operator would simply wait for good opportunities opportunities to get get extra pseudoephedrine. pseudoephedrine. Those opportunities will arise. Perhaps a friend friend is on the way over after they stop by the convenience convenience store. Ask for a box. Maybe while browsing nail polish at a grocery grocery store, one strikes up a conversation with the friendly looking woman (who probably 40


hasn’t met her month ly quota of pseudoephedrine!) Remember, lying to loved ones is WAY, WAY easier than lying to strangers, but only if the the loved one has has no idea what what the operator is attempting. The criminal criminal mastermind operator will find pseudoephedrine pseudoephedrine and will keep their nose clean clean while doing it. it.

REACTION MATERIALS CHEMICALS SODIUM HYDROXIDE 200g sodium hydroxide (NaOH/caustic soda/lye). Go to a local big chain hardware store that sells powdered/crystal powdered/crystal drain cleaner. For each brand of powdered drain cleaner, search the exact product name + “sds” in a favorite anonymous search engine. Skim Composition. Check all the the PDF found for section 3: Composition solid/crystal drain cleaners until one that is relatively pure NaOH/lye is found. Sodium Hydroxide Hydroxide should be at least least 96% of the product. And, just so readers don’t waste time looking: Red Devil Lye does not exist in stores and it will NOT be ordered online. Also, NEVER BUY DRANO BRAND ANYTHING. It is filled with trash. NaOH is used used a) to basify the pseudoephedrine (more (more on that later) and b) to soak up water from the decomposition of ammonium carbonate. Understand that leaving the sodium hydroxide container open will result result in the chemical chemical sucking water water out of the air. air. It will heat up, it will will get soggy, soggy, and it will be a mess. When weighing or handling sodium sodium hydroxide, keep keep exposure to air air minimal. The dryer it is, the better it will suck up the reaction water. Sodium hydroxide will destroy glass. It takes a long time, but it will eat right through through it given the chance. chance. For this reason, reason, store in a plastic bag if outside of the container it came in. As was stated in the key ke y hazards section, this stuff isn’t going to burn the operator quickly quickly in its powder powder form. It will, 41

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however, make itself wet from humid air and, seeing as one on e grain of sodium hydroxide allowed to sit on the skin will leave a mark only a little smaller than a cigarette burn, the operator who thinks the powder is harmless will quickly be in pain and will be left with obvious chemical burns on his or her skin. The solution, especially a concentrated sodium hydroxide solution, will leave burns on skin even if immediately wiped off and rinsed. In liquid form, it’s as powerful as concentrated strong acid. It will eat eat through skin, burn burn hair off and cause blindness just just as easily as sulfuric acid, but it may not hurt as badly while it does it, making it a particularly dangerous beast. Again: keep dry. Avoid exposure to air. DO NOT LET IT COME INTO CONTACT WITH AMMONIUM-CONTAINING COMPOUNDS BEFORE REACTION. Let’s say the operator weighs some sodium hydroxide, then weighs some some ammonium carbonate carbonate in the same same place. Any amount of spilled powder will absorb moisture and begin producing ammonia ammonia gas, which which best-case will stink and be annoying. The long and short of it is that sodium hydroxide h ydroxide is serious stuff. REACTION MATERIALS CHEMICALS AMMONIUM CARBONATE MATERIALS FOR PRODUCTION OF AMMONIUM CARBONATE 5-gallon bucket, preferably white * If not white, one sheet of white paper 2.5lb baking soda (1kg or 1,000g) One gallon of household ammonia (sold in 64oz [1/2 gallon] bottles, not window window cleaner or or products that simply simply CONTAIN 42


ammonia) A bottle of muriatic acid * (The big bottle from the hardware store should be enough to do EVERYTHING in this document) Aluminum foil A RED cabbage (seriously) A blender to help with the cabbage or a sharp knife and patience A coffee filter to separate juice from cabbage Good lighting (cellphone flashlight is fine) Sandwich bags with zippers and/or glass canning jars * These glass canning jars are GREAT to have throughout this entire procedure. They should be about 350ml, have lids, and have have lines for 100ml, 200ml, and 300ml. These lines are all the operator needs for measuring all liquids in this procedure. procedure. The jars are sold in a pack of 20 or so at the grocery store. A stove or electric skillet * Some water (a jar full is plenty) * That trusty deep pot * Something plastic or wooden to stir with (avoid metal, as HCl will ruin it) Materials with asterisks (*) are needed for the main reaction procedure as as well. Unasterisked materials materials will not be present in the reaction materials list but will be present in the master materials list (Appendix A) fun one. It isn’t sold as is; it Ammonium carbonate is the fun needs to be prepared. The operator can can rest assured that an amount needed for about twenty attempts is produced per batch of ammonium carbonate, so this won’t be an every -time thing. First, one must produce sodium carbonate and ammonium chloride. These are both relatively easy easy to make, and their preparations (and (and the preparation preparation of ammonium ammonium carbonate from from them) are described in the below steps. 43

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Forget stoichiometric perfection when making ammonium chloride; concentrations of household ammonia (even for generic brands) is always always a trade secret. secret. That bottle could be 2-10%. pH indicator 1. Shred the red cabbage and filter the juice through a coffee filter. Keep the juice and toss the plant matter. Sodium carbonate 1. Easy. Get three pounds pounds of sodium bicarbonate bicarbonate (baking soda, not baking powder) powder) and put it in an oven-proof glass casserole dish. Bake at 200 200 Fahrenheit for an an hour. If the layer in the dish is more than half an an inch thick, bake for two hours. Try to end up with with a kilogram (2.5lb). Ammonium chloride 1. Pour about 500ml of muriatic acid into a 5 gallon bucket. If this bucket isn’t white, wait until after step 3 and drop a white sheet sheet of paper into the bucket. bucket. Don’t submerge a hand in it. Have a flashlight if doing this without optimal lighting. 2. Add a half gallon (one 64oz bottle) of household ammonia solution. SLOWLY. 3. Add at least ten drops of the red cabbage juice to the solution. 4. If the color is red or purple, keep keep adding ammonia. If the color is green or yellow, slowly add more acid. 5. The goal is a color t hat isn’t quite lavender, as in just losing all purpleness and barely barely turning blue. If one can’t really tell tell the exact color, just be sure it’s very close to blue-purple. 6. Boil this down. If the pH was too low, it’ll be a sour smell that will rust all nearby metal instantly and the product will be slimy (but still usable). usable). If the pH was too high, high, a smell of ammonia ammonia will be present at at the beginning of boiling. 44


7. Once the water is almost gone, reduce heat to avoid overheating ammonium chloride. chloride. Remember, the the temperature of a pot of boiling water is right at 212ish Fahrenheit. Fahrenheit. Once that pot is empty, it’ll quickly climb by hundreds of degrees. Avoid this 8. Scrape together the ammonium ammonium chloride. Try to end up up with 2 kilograms, although if this process sucked, know that less than t han 50g is needed per reaction attempt. Ammonium carbonate 1. Mix 2g ammonium chloride for every 1g sodium carbonate with just enough water to make a chunky paste. 1lb carbonate and and 2lb chloride is good. If too much water was added, ammonium carbonate will be much harder to form. 2. Put the paste into the deep pot that one has become so familiar with through these instructions. 3. Form an aluminum foil cone. About a foot tall is good (taller is better), with a 1 inch hole hole on top, and wide wide enough to make make a decent seal with the pot. 4. Put the cone cone on the pot and heat the the pot on low heat. heat. If overheated, a very strong ammonia smell will indicate the premature decomposition decomposition of ammonium ammonium carbonate. carbonate. 5. With stirring of the paste (and addition of water when it becomes too dry) every 2-3 minutes, minutes, ammonium carbonate will deposit inside the cone and simple table salt will be left in the pot. The cone can be briefly removed and gently crinkled over a dry surface to release the ammonium carbonate and avoid over-buildup that could collapse the cone under its own weight. 6. When ammonium carbonate stops depositing inside the foil cone, turn the heat off and weigh everything that came off the 45

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cone. 7. In a perfect world, one would have about 2lb of ammonium carbonate from from the suggested 1lb:2lb 1lb:2lb mixture. 1.5lb is fine, but if it’s under 1lb, and the operator is SURE the formation has stopped, then either too much water or too much heat was used. 8. The ammonium carbonate MUST BE KEPT AWAY FROM HEAT AND AND SUNLIGHT. SUNLIGHT. The exceptionally exceptionally organized organized operator operator would pre-weigh this ammonium carbonate into 100g 1 00g allotments, place each in a sandwich bag, bag, seal them them carefully, pack pack them into canning jars, seal those, and then freeze them. Ammonium carbonate will very slowly decompose on its own, meaning it will always smell a little like ammonia. ammonia. This is the stuff that makes smelling salts. salts. Freezing and double-sealing will prevent this. If it stinks up up the freezer, which should be impossible, store in a dark closet. If a container of this is placed in the sun, the temperature can rise to 130 Fahrenheit, enough to begin full decomposition. This will flood the area with ammonia gas and carbon dioxide. PRECISE MEASURING OF THE 100G MANDATORY. 99G OR 101G IS NOT FINE. 98 OR 102 IS IS NOT FINE. USING OVER 100G AMMONIUM CARBONATE MEANS MORE CO2 PRESSURE.. THIS IS PRESSURE IS BAD AND CAN MAKE THE FEX EXPLODE. 100G EXACTLY. PHASE ONE REACTION DETAILS & COMPARISON TO THE SHAKE N BAKE This is mostly mostly for the the curious operator. If it is too too confusing, simply skip this section. Now that the operator has successfully successfully made made ammonium carbonate, he or she may wonder wonder what exactly exactly it does. The below 46


expression is an example of a “balanced reaction,” meaning everything that goes into the reaction is accounted for at the end.

In English, this means that th at (NH4)2CO3 (properly written as (NH4)2CO3 for the sticklers) decomposes into the three things on the right. Each letter is an element (N for Nitrogen, H for Hydrogen, C for Carbon and O for Oxygen) and the numbers represent how many of that element are in the compound. If one is curious as to what this ‘decomposition’ entails, it is essentially the positively charged ‘half’ of ammonium carbonate, which is the (NH4)2 (ammonium ions), becoming too excited by by heat and no longer wanting to be stuck to the negatively charged ‘half,’ that being the CO3 (carbonate ion). Because the ammonium ion is so similar to ammonia gas, and the carbonate ion is so ioxide, this separation is ‘willing’ to occur at similar to carbon d ioxide, relatively low temperatures (each half is already fighting to break away from the other and become a gas, which is why even the cold compound smells like ammonia). When ammonium (remember, there are TWO ammonium ions for each carbonate) breaks away, it turns from NH4 to NH3, meaning a hydrogen atom is released from both ammonium ions. At the same moment, the carbonate breaks away, and releases an oxygen atom (Changing (Changing from CO3 CO3 to CO2). The two hydrogens hydrogens and the one oxygen form the third product, water. water. So, how does does this fit into the overall reaction? NH3 (ammonia) has already been been discussed. It’s what 47

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dissolves the lithium and allows the pseudoephedrine to change into meth. As for H2O (water), this this is bad, and a full full hour is given given to its removal by sodium hydroxide. hydroxide. Lastly is the more complicated purpose purpose of CO2 (carbon (carbon dioxide). dioxide). When the pressure pressure of the vessel reaches 150ish psi, the ammonia begins liquefying and thus doesn’t increase the pressure anymor e. Carbon dioxide, on the other hand, does not start liquefying anywhere near this pressure; it’s staying staying a gas. As more carbon dioxide is made, made, the pressure of the the fex keeps going going up. When the pressure stops going up, it indicates to the operator that, because no more carbon dioxide is being made, all the ammonium carbonate is decomposed, meaning all the ammonia t o speak. has been formed. The reaction is ‘complete,’ so to The second purpose of carbon dioxide is that, since it stays as a gas no matter what, it essentially ‘takes up too much space’ in the vessel and and forces ammonia ammonia gas to liquefy faster. This means more liquid ammonia (which would otherwise be vented into the acid bucket), bucket), and less deadly deadly fumes. Again, a breath breath of pure ammonia gas is enough to kill. But, inside the the fex, this mixture of gas is mostly mostly carbon dioxide, dioxide, the harmless harmless gas humans exhale. exhale. So, if the operator accidentally squeezes the handle or if a gasket bursts, the room room will be flooded flooded primarily with a less smelly, nontoxic gas (that can still suffocate the op erator; don’t breathe too much) rather than deadly and neighborhood-alerting neighborhood-alerting vapors of pure ammonia. So, how does this compare to older (and now outdated) ‘shake n bake’ bake’ methods? The goal of them is the same; make liquid ammonia to dissolve lithium and make meth. The difference difference is that the shake n bake produces ammonia by reacting ammonium nitrate with sodium hydroxide rather than decomposition of ammonium carbonate. carbonate. The shake n bake reaction reaction is below. below. This reaction reaction is undesirable undesirable for many reasons. reasons. One, it is 48


sluggish. Instead of all ammonia being being produced at at once and then moving on to the lithium phase (Phase 2), ammonia is slowly produced throughout throughout the entire reaction, and even after the reaction is complete. The speed of the shake n bake reaction relies relies entirely on heat and moisture, meaning it can behave differently on a 70 Fahrenheit day with 80% humidity versus a 65 Fahrenheit day with 40% humidity. humidity. So much is left up to chance chance (and that pesky water is STILL produced) that the shake n bake is TOTALLY incapable of providing consistent results. THE AMMONICARB OPERATION is superior in every way. More ammonia is is liquefied faster, faster, carbon dioxide pressure pressure acts as a timer, and wet reagents/climate differences don’t affect consistency. There is no no down-side down-side to this this procedure. procedure. One may say that ammonium nitrate is obtainable from stores while ammonium carbonate must be made, but one must keep in mind that ammonium nitrate must be dissolved in water, filtered, heated, crystallized, crushed, crushed, and dried in an oven. Even after preparation, ammonium nitrate (the shake n bake chemical) readily sucks water out of the air (about 5x faster than sodium hydroxide does). The operator is not only gifted with a totally encompassing guide to making meth as safely and easily as can be done these days but is also given a brand new and never-before-seen method to use. In the author’s author’s day, one would would have to decipher decipher the primordial soup of online message message boards, filtering filtering out the insults and piecing together the tiny bits of consistent information, until something like a procedure could be produced. produced. This required a great deal of chemistry knowledge, patience, determination, and problem-solving skills. REACTION MATERIALS CHEMICALS NONPOLAR SOLVENT SOLVENT “Nonpolar solvent” may n ot be a term that the operator is 49

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familiar with. The next page contains two examples that explain what nonpolar solvents are and why they’re necessary. necessary. The operator will need to acquire about 700ml – 1liter 1liter of

nonpolar solvent. This can be either a) automotive starting fluid (300ml per can) with diethyl ether or b) one of those brands of camp fuel. For starting fluid a), find out what local stores have starting fluid in stock (in aerosol cans) . It doesn’t need to be an ex pensive or name brand starting fluid. Of the brands claimed to be available in store at the local supermarket (spend $3 per p er can at the grocery store or $10 per can at an automotive store) search the product name + “sds” and find the right PDF (ensure ( ensure the product identification on the sds sheet matches perfectly). perfectly). Find section 3: composition. It should only be a few ingredients; ideally some percentage diethyl ether (20% at least), some some larger percentage percentage naphtha/distillates/whatever, naphtha/distillates/whatever, and a small amount of carbon dioxide and maybe trace amounts of one or two other substances. Get whichever brand has the least crap and most diethyl ether in it. Be sure to look for diethyl ether, NOT petroleum ether . Also, the operator should not waste his or her time looking for 50% or even 80% ether formulations. These are overkill, overkill, will produce produce more fumes, and may lower yield. If the reader decides to go with camp fuel, just pick up the appropriate size. The author of this procedure understands that diethyl ether is more of a pain. It also smells worse, worse, is tougher tougher to store, is a pain to spray into the container, and not to mention its vapors will autoignite at only only 350 Fahrenheit. Fahrenheit. It is arguably arguably no more effective than the camp fuel fuel for a one pot reaction. If the operator operator for some reason has a desire to “work” for his or her nonpolar solvent, then give it a shot. If the operator operator wants this done easily and with less p erfectly. smelly solvents and risk of fire, then camp fuel works perfectly If the operator is familiar with nonpolar solvents and has a favorite one that he or she would prefer to use, the author of this 50


procedure is making it clear clear here that no no substitutions or alterations alterations of this procedure are ever going to be condoned based on the principle that this procedure is incredibly strict in material choices. choices. The author of this procedure knows that xylene x ylene would work. Understand that the author of this procedure will not condone its use, but also cannot stop an arrogant operator from using it anyway. Below is the (very well explained, the author must admit) lesson on nonpolar solvents. solvents. It contains contains two examples, examples, both relating to its application application to manufacturing manufacturing meth. This is not indepth chemistry, this is seriously need-to-know stuff . If the operator doesn’t understand non polar solvents, he or she will end end up with a good batch of meth poured down the sink without realizing it, while attempting to get meth out of a liquid totally devoid of it. LEARN THIS. UNDERSTANDING POLAR VERSUS NONPOLAR SOLVENTS AND MOLECULES So, why are there two options? Both the ether starting fluid and the camp fuel are examples of effective and easily accessible “nonpolar solvents”. “Solvent” in this case is simply a liquid that doesn’t react but instead allows reactants to mix. As for the term “nonpolar,” all the reader needs to know is that all compounds are all either polar or nonpolar . The reason why has to do with molecular structure, which this procedure will not discuss (APPENDIX L). Polar vs. nonpolar solvents and compounds are important to understand in at least a basic way, or the operator will make a mistake and his or her meth will end up in the wrong liquid and be poured poured down the drain. drain. The reader should should focus on and really digest the following idea: Nonpolar solvents will dissolve nonpolar molecules. Polar solvents (the best example being ordinary water) will dissolve polar molecules. That little idea is very important to meth production. 51

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RECAP: SOLVENTS ARE JUST LIQUIDS THAT DISSOLVE THINGS. NONPOLAR MEANS IT DISSOLVES THINGS THAT WATER CAN’T, AND VICE VERSA. The crystal methamphetamine that people snort, smoke, eat or inject (as in, all meth that is available for purchase) is actually methamphetamine methamphetamine HCl. That means every molecule of meth is stuck to a hydrochloric acid molecule, and this meth HCl compound is polar. That’s right, the tink in the reader’s bowl is not pure methamphetamine; methamphetamine; it is methamphetamine methamphetamine HCl. HCl. Does the reader miss the simplicity of THE METH MOLECULE? So does the author! Because water is a polar solvent, and meth HCl is a polar molecule, water will easily dissolve crystal meth (aka meth HCl). The same is true for pseudoephedrine, which, as the reader may ma y recall, had ‘ pseudoephedrine pseudoephedrine HCl’ written on the box. In normal conversation, of course, nobody refers to crystal meth as “meth HCl” or goes to the pharmacy to ask for “ pseudoephedrine HCl” because it’s unnecessary and complicated. Again, both polar HCl compounds (crystal meth and pseudoephedrine HCl) dissolve easily in water (which is polar). And, before the reader gets ahead of his or herself, understand that removing the HCl from crystal meth will not no t make meth “even “even more pure.” Keep reading. Example 1: Moving Meth Around (do not actually actually perform this experiment. experiment. Just visualize it)

1. Take a shard of crystal meth the size of a quarter and set it in some camp fuel or ether. The crystal meth would of o f course immediately dissolve if it had been placed in water, as that is how large shard doesn’t dissolve at all IV users use the drug. But this large in the nonpolar solvent. Why? 2. It won’t dissolve at all because a nonpolar solvent cannot 52


dissolve a polar molecule. Remember, crystal meth is methamphetamine HCl, which is polar, so it will only be dissolved by a polar solvent, solvent, which in this case would be water. 3. Now, remove the shard of meth HCl from the nonpolar solvent, pat it dry to get the nonpolar nonpolar solvent off and then place it it in a jar that’s about ¼ full of water, i.e. polar solvent. 4. Even a large shard like this will melt VERY rapidly in the water. Of course, it’s still in the water, but as a solution of meth rather rather than a big crystal. crystal. The reader should understand that this this water would taste bitter like meth and that the water could be dried out to recover the same amount of meth (although it would no longer be one big crystal). 5. But what if the HCL is stripped off the dissolved crystal meth? HCl is an acid and could be neutralized by a base, theoretically. Let’s try it. 6. Take the jar with the dissolved meth HCl (in water) and add NaOH solution (made (made from 50g solid sodium hydroxide hydroxide in 100ml water) to neutralize neutralize it. An equal volume volume of NaOH solution solution is added, and the jar is now half full. The neutralization is shown as a reaction below!

7. So, the water with meth HCl in it had just enough HCl to bind with all the meth, meth, and a LOT LOT of NaOH was was added into it. With so much extra NaOH, one assumes all the HCl was neutralized, and that now the jar has a very basic (i.e. lots of NaOH, which is a base) solution. The jar is half half full, and at at the top of the liquid liquid has That’s pure meth! Called “freebase” appeared a layer of oil. That’s pure methamphetamine, methamphetamine, it amazingly is an oil instead of a crystal. 53

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When the HCl is stripped away from crystal meth, in this case by by adding a base, base, meth changes changes from polar to nonpolar. Nonpolar molecules don’t dissolve in polar solvents, so the meth (that, as meth HCl, was happy being dissolved in water) instantly became incompatible with it, and ‘fell out’ of the water. 8. So what, now now the meth is ruined, right? No. What one would want to do is dissolve that little layer of meth freebase, a nonpolar molecule, with with a good bit of nonpolar solvent. solvent. This is called extraction, and the most obvious reason it is done is because that layer of freebase meth is way too thin to scoop out of the water. 9. Now, pour some nonpolar solvent (either starting fluid or camp fuel) into the jar with the freebase, freebase, filling it almost to the top. It doesn’t mix with water, and quickly sucks up the meth freebase oil. Okay, now the top liquid layer layer in the jar is freebase meth dissolved in a solvent. Let’s separate it from that water. (If the reader is trying to imagine how a clear liquid can be “on top” of another clear liquid, and what that might look like, it looks like a thin film separating separating two identical identical liquids. The interface, interface, or place where the two liquids meet, is always very visible.) Note: Density of liquids determines which is on top and which is on bottom. Water is pretty pretty dense, and and nonpolar solvents are almost always less dense. dense. For this procedure, procedure, always assume the water layer is the bottom layer .

10. The contents of the jar are poured into a sandwich bag and sealed, then it’s held in the air air by one of the the top corners. corners. The liquids are still very clearly separated. The reader can now shake that bag for ten seconds and then hold it still, and the layers will separate within seconds. Now move this bag over the jar, and have the bottom corner aimed into the jar. With a pair of scissors, snip the very tip of the bottom corner off, and the water layer starts pouring into the bottom of the the jar while the the nonpolar layer floats 54


above it. Note: Step 10 sounds sounds complicated. All this step does does is take the the liquid in the jar and make it so that the bottom layer can be poured out. If one simply poured from from the jar, a mix of both liquids would come out, which would be pointless. The sandwich bag mimics a ‘separatory funnel .’ A diagram is available in the section, “EXTRACTION OF METH FROM REACTION FLUID.”

11. When the interface, or the place where the two liquids meet, is exactly at the hole, it is pinched pinched shut. Now, all the the water is in the jar, and all all the nonpolar is in the bag. bag. Move this bag of nonpolar, still pinched shut, over a fresh fresh jar, and let it drain. The liquids have now been successfully separated! A quick recap of what has taken place so far is a) taken crystal meth HCl as a solid, b) dissolved it in a polar solvent (water), c) freebased it with NaOH d) extracted the freebase meth with nonpolar solvent and e) separated the layers. layers. What next? How about about we turn it back into the solid HCl form? 12. A gasser (a device with a foot long, thin, flexible tube sticking out of it that blows a slow stream of HCl gas from the tube) is brought out. The operator will will learn to construct construct a simple gasser gasser later in this procedure. procedure. The end of the hose, where HCl is coming from, is submerged just below the surface of the nonpolar solvent. The stream of HCl gas blows into the liquid, and gentle bubbling of the top of the nonpolar solvent is observed. 13. After a few seconds, the top of the nonpolar solvent which was clear like water is looking milky, and little white specks are falling from the top of the liquid down down to the bottom of the jar. That is the formation of meth HCl, which is polar, so doesn’t dissolve in the solvent. What’s happening is the HCl gas bubbles through the liquid, some of it touches meth free base, the HCl sticks back onto 55

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the molecule, molecule, and it falls out of the solution. solution. (Meth ‘enjoys’ being stuck to HCl and behaves strangely without it (as freebase meth). It is a liquid as stated stated previously, is difficult and harsh harsh to smoke, has a smell, and (worst of all) slowly evaporates! ) 14. When no more solids are being formed, the liquid is poured through a coffee coffee filter, which which traps the tiny meth HCl crystals. crystals. The solvent passes through. 15. The hose hose is submerged back into the solvent. Instantly, more meth HCl (in the form of more tiny crystals) forms and drifts to the bottom of the jar. 16. It’s filtered in the same coffee filter, and the solu tion is gassed two more times. times. On the fourth gassing, no crystal crystal meth forms, so gassing is complete. 17. The coffee filter dries, and now that original ori ginal big meth HCl crystal which was pushed and pulled and melted and recrystallized is back! Well, as a million tiny crystals instead of the one big shard. But that’s ok ay. ay. These tiny crystals are what are formed by every meth manufacturing method . So where where do big big crystals crystals come from? 18. Put the baby meth crystals in a shot glass. A tablespoon or two of liquid methanol (another polar solvent that is very similar to ethanol, which is alcohol that people drink) is heated in a pan. When it boils, a spoon is used to scoop up little bits of the hot methanol and then pour it into the shot glass. glass. It takes a very small amount of the hot methanol to dissolve the meth HCl crystals. 19. Now, this solution of meth HCl in methanol is put somewhere where it won’t be disturbed. 20. The next next day (recrystallization (recrystallization takes a while), look. Instead of of 56


seeing a clear liquid in the glass, and instead of seeing those same tiny little sand looking crystals, there are a couple crystals that are a one or two, two, (even up to 5) millimeters long. long. Not only did that that recrystallization make bigger crystals (which can keep being done over and over and over until the crystals are HUGE), it also did a small bit of purifying to the meth. 21. Now, one can apply this exact procedure to pseudoephedrine HCl and it’ll move m ove through the solvents and then be recrystallized recr ystallized in basically the same way. way. Remember, pseudoephedrine pseudoephedrine and and meth are nearly identical molecules and behave very similarly (in chemistry, at at least. Not similar at all once they enter enter the brain!) One small difference is that freebase pseudoephedrine is a waxy solid unlike freebase meth which the reader will remember is a clear oil. Example 2: HCl and freebase within the reaction

The movement of pseudoephedrine and meth within the reaction vessel can be understood: The GUPs (pseudoephedrine HCl + pill fillers) will reduce yields if exposed to water . When the GUPs go into the fex, containing 300ml solvent, there are three paths it can take. The best path is pseudoephedrine pseudoephedrine HCl bumping directly into solid sodium hydroxide, freebasing, leaving the GUPs behind entirely, entirely, and moving into the solvent/ammonia. solvent/ammonia. The second-best path would be the pseudoephedrine bumping into a super tiny, microscopic droplet of water (which is basic due to dissolved sodium hydroxide), freebasing, and leaving almost all the GUPs behind. The third-best, also known as the worst, would be the GUPs interacting with a large drop of water, big enough to activate the (polar) tamper-resistant chemicals in the GUPs. These chemicals then form gak, a super-sticky matrix that completely traps pseudoephedrine, freebased freebased or not, and makes it useless. It is 57

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another reason as to why moisture should be controlled within the fex. Remember: companies producing producing pseudoephedrine pseudoephedrine have have spent thirty years limiting its ability to be made into in to meth to keep the government from making pseudoephedrine prescription-only. THE AMMONICARB OPERATION sneaks its way around these gak-producing gak-producing chemicals by never introducing them to water in the first place. It’s genius, but the author of this procedure must admit that the older shake n bake methods figured this out first. REACTION MATERIALS CHEMICALS LITHIUM METAL A single lithium (NOT LITHIUM ION) battery is required but the operator operator should have at at least three backups. It’s a popular brand of AA AA battery and two seconds of research research will tell the reader which. Look up a guide for pulling these lithium batteries apart, but don’t take one apart yet . Taking the battery apart is not done until the moment the lithium is needed in the reaction . Words can ’t easily explain how to do it, so the operator just needs to see it be done. done. DO NOT TAKE THE BATTERY APART UNTIL THIS GUIDE INSTRUCTS THE OPERATOR TO DO SO. THE ONLY PREP ONE MAY DO BEFORE INITIATING THE REACTION PROCEDURE PROCEDURE IS TO PEEL THE STICKERS OFF THE BATTERIES. Watch and read everything available and settle on a preferred method of opening them. The author of this procedure procedure prefers to gorilla-style gorilla-style rip them apart with pliers. pliers. It works well well enough. Now, as soon as that battery experiences enough trauma or is opened, it’s going to stink . Also, if the battery shorted long enough from positive terminal contact or from being crushed (basically, if at any point the battery got too hot to hold), it’ll open up and the operator will only get tattered blackened shreds of 58


lithium foil, which are useless (but still will burst into flames, of course). Here is the autho r’s guide to opening the b attery which can only be used if other videos have been seen for context. Materials on’t flatten or needed: 1 battery, 1 pair pliers. Peel plastic sticker; d on’t crush the battery; peel back the metal surrounding the positive terminal (nipple) to produce a metal ‘tab’; hold the pliers sideways roll/turn the against the casing, tightly grip the metal tab, and roll/turn pliers down the the length of the battery, like when one opens opens a can of sardines. The third or fourth ‘roll’ may make the case deform or may flatten the battery. Stop to fix it. When the plastic-wrapped plastic-wrapped squishy white guts are free of the metal case, submerge in the solvent (prepared as a step in the reaction procedure) before unraveling. Remove the ‘stiff’ dull gray strip (it’s surprisingly long), like dull aluminum foil (this is lithium!) and tear into ½ inch thin strips or chunks chunks while keeping keeping away from air. The lithium won’t explode in two seconds of air exposure, but the su rface of the lithium WILL BE converted to worthless lithium oxide. Less metallic lithium means less meth. DO NOT add more than one strip to this batch batch size. It will overreduce overreduce the meth meth into sludge . If the battery battery gets really hot, hot, set it down. This battery will produce a terrible stink when opened. It’s be tter to throw this one away (once it cools) and to get another one. The heat is from the battery shorting shorting too much too rapidly, which which triggers an automatic release of sulfur-smelling garbage if disassembly is continued. The lithium must be kept far away from moisture. If it’s humid, the window of handling in air is reduced from a few seconds to zero zero seconds. Hands that are are sweaty from fumbling with the battery must be dried before removing the lithium strip. Gloves are best. The operator is reminded that lithium in water explodes. Trace water in the nonpolar solvent will only waste bits of lithium (and reduce yield), but if there are puddles of water in there, the lithium will BLOW. BLOW. If the lithium lithium catches on fire before the 59

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reaction vessel is sealed, the fire will spread to the nonpolar solvent, which will heat ammonium carbonate, force decomposition, and then catch the produced ammonia on fire. There is no no option for putting this fire out. Throw it outside (this is dangerous but will save the building from burning down) and try tr y to not cause cause a scene. Do not spray water on it. A (real) (real) fire fire extinguisher may slow the blaze enough to locate and separate the lithium strip but is not made to fully extinguish this type of fire. Once the fire fire goes out, spray water to sequester sequester ammonia gas. gas. If this scene got the attention of neighbors, there is very ver y little chance that this will not result in close to a decade in prison. Thankfully, Thankfully, the lithium will not spontaneously combust like ether vapor. In air the operator has about about fifteen seconds of time to play with before it is too hot to handle. The less time the better. What the operator WANTS to happen is for the lithium to not do anything until dissolving in the liquid ammonia . The reader who has researched birch methods may be annoyed. Lithium should be added in a precise amount to provide exactly as many electrons as will reduce all pseudoephedrine and not overreduce it! Not for THE AMMONICARB OPERATION. A lot of electrons are lost reacting with dissolved pill fillers, some are eaten by the inevitably present (but hopefully minimal) amount of water, and still others are wasted on other contaminants. An excess of lithium should be used to account for all the extra crap (and additionally, having all this extra crap will slow the rate of overreduction of the meth). This means that that a full hour of reduction makes sure as much pseudoephedrine is reduced to meth as possible while only the minimum amount is overreduced. Basically, the lithium addition in this procedure is like bowling with bumpers bumpers up. It’s protected from both reducing the product too much and from not reducing all the pseudoephedrine but does not guarantee a strike (in this case, a strike would be 95% yield). The hour of reduction and swirling is not just a tossed-out reasonable-sounding reasonable-sounding time limit. It gives gives the best product, product, give or 60


take five minutes, every time, t ime, regardless of differences between operator techniques. techniques. THE AMMONICARB AMMONICARB OPERATION OPERATION is a very resilient method, and all aspects have been logically and practically optimized optimized to guarantee guarantee AT LEAST LEAST 4g meth but also to provide all the tools one would need to approach approach the coveted coveted 5g batch. But, back to lithium. There is no no other commercial commercial source for lithium, so one cannot avoid dealing with the AA’s. Try to think of the battery as the last barricade standing between the operator and his or her $400-600 (easily $1000 if cut to street-meth standards) batch of meth. meth. Every time the operator operator marvels in frustration at the thickness of the steel case or the ease with which it can be smashed, remember that a lot of meth is only hours away. The author is proud of the operator for persisting and loves when those little AA pieces of shit get man-handled. REACTION MATERIALS CHEMICALS MURIATIC ACID Muriatic acid (HCl solution). It is at the hardware store, but it can be tough to locate. It IS there, so just ask an employee and if they are the most obnoxious person on earth and ask what it’s for , just say something something about an uncle uncle that asked for for it, or the driveway driveway needing to be cleaned, or whatever. The operator must always remember that he or she has the right t o say it’s a private matter . Again, they’re not going to call the cops. Oh, and this acid can be anywhere from 30-37% concentration; it doesn ’t matter. The author of this procedure only eyeballs it when pouring acid anyway. This is used to satisfy three totally unrelated needs (which is a testament of the versatility and beauty of hydrochloric acid, aka muriatic acid or HCl) First, this is going to be poured (1/3 of the bottle is fine) 61

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into a 5-gallon bucket with water to make the acid bucket/venting trap/whatever one may want to call it. The acid bucket is always always prepared and and nearby before any chemicals are added to the fex. fex. Remember a rule about the fex. If it has reactants in it, the operator will not squeeze the handle unless the fex hose is submerged in the muriatic acid bucket . The author of this procedure doesn’t doesn’t care if the fex has bee n ice cold for hours and reads zero psi. Best practice is for for the operator operator to have his or her hand OFF the handle of the fex unless unscrewing or the tube is submerged in the acid bucket. Second is for the construction of the gasser. gasser. This is what is going to deliver dry HCl gas into the (already filtered) reaction fluid and turn meth freebase into solid meth HCl. Its construction is simple and is detailed later. Third is for the preparation of ammonium chloride, which is in turn used to prepare ammonium carbonate, the heart of THE AMMONICARB OPERATION . It is mixed with household ammonia (remember, household ammonia is at least 90% water) and the pH is monitored with a homemade indicator (that one needs no understanding of pH to use). Critical to safe muriatic acid use is this rule of thumb. When adding muriatic acid to water or adding water to muriatic acid, it will get hot. Less water means more concentrated concentrated heat which itself means rapid boiling and splattering of acid. Always mix muriatic acid very slowly . It won’t set anything on fire, but muriatic acid will destroy any non-plastic, non-glass surface it touches, INCLUDING EYEBALLS. If one is certain that he or she will be doing more than one attempt at THE AMMONICARB OPERATION, one should go ahead and buy buy six containers at once and NOTHING else. Buying a lot of a chemical simply tells onlookers that the operator has a doesn’t rouse suspicion. Furthermore, serious job to tackle and doesn’t this may very well be the next item pulled from shelves, so stocking up is good preparation. 62


REACTION MATERIALS CHEMICALS MISC. Calcium chloride (CaCl2). This will be found as a product in a smallish plastic tub (white or blue shrink-wrapped) near bathroom cleaners cleaners that helps dehumidify dehumidify dank areas, like under under sinks and stuff. Make sure it ’s the little white rocks, not a mixture of brown stuff. There’s only one brand of this chemical available as a dehumidifier, but it can be purchased as concrete accelerant (or something like that, do some research) in 50lb bags. One does not need nearly that much for this procedure, even if engaging in 100 attempts, but it is a good backup source. Acetone. Sold with solvents. Should be a half-gallon looking rectangular tin, next to an entire section of similar looking tins that contain other liquids. Must be stripped of water before use. More on that later. Denatured Alcohol. This mixture of ethanol and methanol will be right next to the acetone. If the operator can get his or her hands on pure methanol, the operator should do that. See above note about stripping water. 8 lb Epsom Salt, grains made to be the size of sand, and dried at 400 Fahrenheit on a cookie sheet in the oven with occasional stirring for two hours. It looks like a “dry” substance, but water is trapped in the crystal structure and must be removed. removed. Get a lot of it and have a very large airtight container to store the dried salt in. Running out of this will throw a wrench wrench into the purification procedure procedure that cannot cannot be removed removed until more is obtained and dried. Store it in canning jars, sealed sandwich sandwich bags, or preferably huge plastic air-tight containers. Any chemical rust remover that preferably doesn’t require abrasion. Sold at hardware stores. This is to clean the t he inside of the fex. Be warned, the extinguisher is practically impossible to see 63

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into. Scrubbing the rust out of the inside will be impossible a) because there there is no tool on earth earth that will will comfortably fit into it and b) because one can’t jam something som ething into the fex and see what’s happening in there too if rust remover that requires scrubbing is purchased. There is one brand brand that is much more common than all other rust removers. removers. If that brand brand cannot be identified with a high degree of certainty, just be sure the chemical DOES NOT say anything about “protecting” “protecting” metal from from rust. That would mean it deposits chemicals onto the metal, which could either ruin yields at best, ruin the fex entirely at almost-best, and cause cause an unpredictable and unidentified reaction at worst. Some water in a cup and an empty water bottle. This should be the kind of generic 20fl oz oz bottle with the flimsy, flimsy, tiny cap on it that bottlers switched to around 2008. That cap is easier to work with, and the super weak plastic makes gassing easy. REACTION MATERIALS NON-CHEMICAL NON-CHEMICAL A segment of latex or plastic (NOT METAL) hose/tubing. Probably about a foot of it, but the operator will likely have to spend nearly twenty bucks for ten feet of the good stuff. Latex tubing is preferred; aim for ¼ inch. Smaller is fine but much larger will not work. It ’s going to be going through a hole melted in the cap of the above water bottle, and the squishiness of latex provides a better seal. The end not stuck in the cap will be the ‘business end’ of the gassing device . A scale, or a way to AT LEAST weigh up the ammonium carbonate precisely. Sodium hydroxide mass can be estimated by comparing to something one knows to be about 200 grams. For making ammonium carbonate, note that 450g is about one pound, and 1000g is a kilogram. 1-quart sandwich bags, preferably name brand with a strong zipper. Pouring liquid into a cheap bag that immediately 64


starts leaking is no fun, so don’t be cheap . The operator could need only five of these or, if choosing to use for storage, could need fifty. Steel wool. This must be a pack of three circular wads of the wide and springy, not fibrous and flammable, steel wool. If the pack can’t be found, be sure that it’s at least the described described form. 3- pack 2 large pickle/glass jars. Wide mouths. 1-quart jars are perfect. Coffee filters. Cone-shaped for anything funnel related AND basket shaped for anything else. The small stack that the operator has in his or her kitchen is not enough. Having enough that one does not have to conservatively filter will save a lot of frustration. The operator needs to be able to pull out six at once and not be tempted to put one back because the stack is looking low. Get two packages in case something possesses the operator to use even more than recommended. If somehow the operator has access to better filter paper than coffee filters, use it, but not if getting it involves online transactions, talking to people, stealing, or anything anything suspicious. Remember: like two boxes of pseudoephedrine, pseudoephedrine, there is no excuse for a law-abiding citizen to have filter paper. A blender/food processor/coffee grinder/pestle and mortar/some way to smash the pseudoephedrine into GUPs. Coffee grinder is best. This is a noisy step, but the use of a blender is so ordinary, especially early in the morning, there ’s no reason to fear. A spoon. This is used at at the very end end for recrystallization. recrystallization. Whatever tools the operator has decided to use to open the battery via the the chosen method. 2 PLASTIC five-gallon buckets. (They’re like $3 honestly it’s good to have 3 or 4) (White is best). Scissors (they’ll be cutting steel wool at one point so don ’t use a good pair) 2 plastic funnels, a small one (2in across roughly) and a big, full sized, fat one. Don ’t settle for the funnel that looks ‘sorta small 65

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but probably good enough’. A good funnel makes things a lot smoother. Large and with a wide spout, and again, PLASTIC. A large, deep saucepan used all over the procedure. A wash cloth that is ideally 2ft by 1ft in area. A hand rag will not be large enough, as this cloth needs to be folded over itself to be 4 layers thick and still be larger than the base of the fex. Paper towels towels (or a rag, the the author supposes). supposes). This is mostly used for drying things. A wide, shallow plastic food storage container that the operator can fit both hands into. No lid necessary. One in the shape of a sandwich will work. At least 1 inch deep. deep. Canning jars, approx. 300-500ml volume. As noted earlier, these little guys are great. They should be sold as like a case of 20 at the grocery store. There’s no need for all 20, five is probably enough, but get them anyway. The best ones even have marks on them for each hundred milliliters, which is the closest thing to measuring this author typically does. If the operator doesn’t want to be in possession of these jars, then he or she better have some glass containers with good lids that are air tight or a hell of a lot of extra sandwich bags. Needle nose nose pliers. The tip of these will be heated and used to melt a hole in the cap of the water bottle. A thick nail can also be used, but but will be tougher tougher to use reliably reliably than pliers. Bag of ice. This is the last item, and the operator is going to be extremely frustrated when when he or she realizes that it was was forgotten and must stop prep work to pick one up. REMEMBER, MASTER MATERIAL LIST FOUND IN APPENDIX A. POST MATERIAL LIST NOTES Of all chemicals and materials listed, remember that they this route has has only one one are not “ingredients” of meth. Meth via this ingredient, and that is pseudoephedrine pseudoephedrine HCl. 66


Now, chances chances are the reader reader skimmed that that list of equipment equipment and is now very disappointed because he or she sh e was hoping this would be a simple procedure . It still is simple. Getting the items together is the worst part . The day(s) that the operator spends getting all this together is a very tiring and frustrating day. Toward the end of it, he or she will be fed up with searching, and will walk into whatever store is next on the list and go straight to an employee to ask where the needed thing is. This day will not not be spent in check-out lines or driving around town (at least, it will not feel like it). This day will be spent staring at at shelves in stores stores across town, frustrated and losing hope that the needed thing is there. If three stores are close to each other, and the operator plans on getting one thing from each each that together together are suspicious, suspicious, he or she will do the right thing and return home after each purchase to carefully carefully place the the item in the home. Nothing is more more dangerous than having more than two or three of these things in the operator’s car at one tim e. If law law enforcement enforcement ever sees a person in possession of even two of the wrong chemicals, and even if said member of law enforcement seems to not notice them, the potential operator needs to be aware that there is now a cop out there t here that has permanently associated the operator’s appearance with methamphetamine manufacture, manufacture, and needs to have a long and deep reflection on whether this procedure is worth time in prison. Not one single thing on this list may be purchased online. The author of of this procedure procedure does not care that there was was a great deal on a coffee grinder online and is not interested in how low-profile the the operator believes believes that purchase purchase is. If there is something listed here that is not available in town, get ready to get in the car and drive a few hours to get it. The operator would be b y forcing the phrase “online shopping” out making a wise choice by of his or her vocabulary. When the operator has accumulated everything, everything, the master materials list (APPENDIX (APPENDIX A) needs to be used. used. Set all the 67

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material in a pile. Pick up one thing. thing. Set it on the other other side of the room, and then check off that item. Repeat. Now go purchase whatever it is that was forgotten. If the reader has made it this t his far, he or she is dancing along the fine line of becoming an an operator. Remember these these warnings and don’t think that ANY ASPECT OF ONE’S LIFE MAKES THIS SAFE. SAFE. If the operator operator has a Ph.D. Ph.D. in chemistry, chemistry, he or she will walk into this procedure confidently and make a mistake; chemistry knowledge/expertise knowledge/expertise should be considered a handicap. It means he or she has devised shortcuts, skimmed over steps, and justified all of it by concluding concluding that he or she is more educated than the author of of this procedure. If that is the attitude of a reader considering this procedure, he or she must understand that nobody is MORE LIKELY TO FAIL. What THE AMMONICARB OPERATION takes is an ABILITY AND GENUINE DESIRE to follow instructions, and more importantly, a DEEP FEAR of this reaction.

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THE NEXT PAGE BEGINS THE PROCEDURE FOR THE REACTION THAT WILL PRODUCE METHAMPHETAMINE. THERE IS NO AMOUNT OF PREPARATION OR CARE THAT CAN MAKE THIS PROCEDURE SAFE. EACH STEP SHOULD BE CONSIDERED DEADLY TO PERFORM. EACH STEP ON ITS OWN IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO SINGLE HANDEDLY CONVICT THE OPERATOR OF FELONY MANUFACTURING OF METHAMPHETAMINE. ATTEMPTING THIS PROCEDURE IS DEFINITIVE PROOF OF SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS. ILLNESS . PRESENTED FIRST ARE PREPARATORY PROCEDURES. THESE MAY NOT BE TIME SENSITIVE BUT CAN STILL RESULT IN DEATH. FOLLOWING THAT IS THE REACTION PROCEDURE THERE ARE MANY BOLD AND UPPERCASE FINAL WARNINGS THROUGHOUT. THROUGHOU T. IF THE READER CANNOT ADJUST TO AND ACCEPT THESE WARNINGS OR IS ANNOYED BY THEM, THEN THE READER IS NOT READY TO HANDLE THE MENTAL STATE OF THE BINGE THAT WILL RESULT FROM FOUR GRAMS OF PERSONAL-USE METHAMPHETAMINE.

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PREPARATIONS PREPARATIONS THAT ARE NOT TIME-SENSITIVE (DO AT LEISURE) These preparations should, like the fex, not be done immediately before the reaction procedure. 1. Bake a lot of epsoms. A thick layer for two hours on a cookie sheet at 400 Fahrenheit. The operator is to be sure that there are always lots and lots of dry epsoms available and, like l ike the coffee filters, never in short enough supply to tempt the operator to not use them as liberally as possible. Wet solvents can can cause 4.5 4.5 grams of successfully produced meth to be invisible to the operator and to end up down a drain. If the operator operator has 20 20 canning jars, fill ten with epsoms. 2. Put a thick layer of epsoms, an inch or two, into two canning jars. Fill one with acetone and one with denatured alcohol, alcohol, smell each and know the difference, cap them and freeze until immediately before use. Give them a shake every few hours. Freeze for 24 hours before using. Remember: any solvent or liquid obtained that isn ’t water, even laboratory grade solvents, will have some water dissolved in it (that the operator has absolutely no way of detecting, seeing, or testing for). Polar solvents will suck humidity straight from the air. Nonpolar solvents don’t mix with water, but tiny bits do, and an undried nonpolar solvent should always be treated as if it is pregnant with more than enough water to be made useless. useless . The dry epsom salt is a quick and effective way to dry these liquids that, without drying, are realistically unusable. And, if the importance of this isn’t sticking, visualize this in order to understand how seriously important drying this shit is: 70


The operator has a hefty batch and goes to do the acetone wash on the tiny meth crystals, which instantaneously melt into a puddle that must be evaporated, which will take forever and will make the house smell like nail polish remover both during and long afterward. Now imagine this: the operator takes the reaction fluid and start gassing it without having dried it first. Nothing happens. He or she just keeps waiting, feeling assured that it’ll start any second, while the crystals were probably formed and then immediately sucked into the small bit of water dispersed throughout the undried reaction fluid. If this happens, pour a lot of concentrated NaOH solution (ballpark 200 or so ml) into the reaction fluid. Seal and shake for as long as possible, preferably five full minutes. The operator is now forced to hope against hope that the meth was freebased back out of the water. When the layers separate, drain the water layer (but save s ave it and get ready to hate life if there ’s still meth HCl in there). Now properly dry the reaction fluid and gas again. If wet solvents were the problem, this should work. If nothing happens again, there will be a sinking feeling in the operator’s chest, wondering desperately where the fuck the meth is, and whether any was made at all. Try mixing the reaction fluid that failed a second gassing back b ack with that water that was saved. Pour more NaOH solution in. Separate and gas. Nothing? Sorry, the synth failed. An incorrect chemical is most likely the culprit. Check that sodium hydroxide again. 4. Remove and pulverize the pills into GUPs. They need to be as finely crushed as possible. The operator will be tempted to give up if using a blender, because getting those last pieces to blend will take eternity. Put GUPs in a 1-quart bag. Note the slight pinkishness (if reds reds were used). 71

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Some may believe the GUPs should be the consistency of sand, not powder, to reduce pill fillers’ opportunity to enter reaction fluid. Powderize them. 5. Weigh VERY, VERY PRECISELY the ammonium carbonate. Each additional gram of ammonium carbonate will add over 5psi to the vessel. PUSHING THE LIMIT OF THE FEX IS THE STUPIDEST THING THIS AUTHOR CAN IMAGINE ONE INTENTIONALLY DOING. Place a basket coffee filter on the scale in a room totally free of moving moving air. Press tare, even even if the scale already reads zero grams. Then weigh the 100 grams. Be sure. All the willy-nilly measurements in this procedure are made up for by this one incredibly important measurement. 6. Weigh the 200g sodium hydroxide. Put it in its own bag. Don’t try to conserve conserve bags by putting chemicals in them them together. Seal it. It’ll absorb water from the air, and will get hot as more moisture is absorbed. Wet NaOH cannot be dried in glass. Wet NaOH should not be a problem anyway, as the operator will be putting it from sealed container to sealed bag. Again, keep it straight from the other two bags. DON’T let sodium hydroxide mix with ammonium salt at all until placed in the fex. This sounds obvious but be careful. The ammonium carbonate is intended to decompose from heat, but WILL react with sodium hydroxide if moisture or humidity is present. 7. Take the cap from the water bottle and the needle nose pliers. Heat the tip of the pliers and push them through the TOP of the cap and twist to make a careful, circular hole. The plastic around it will 72


be pushed in the direction that that would be down down into the bottle, if the cap was on. This is good. Make the hole bigger by b y heating the pliers and pressing pressing them in the hole. hole. Each time this is done, try to fit one end of the latex tube into the hole . If the operator overshoots and the hole is too big, he or she will have to start over as it WILL NOT WORK. The latex tube must have a very very snug fit and look cinched. This will be completed later. Diagram below (full foot of tube shown ‘cut -off’ rather than extending to the edge of the image).

8. Take the steel wool ball that made the valve plug and cut it in half. One of these halves MUST be nearby when opening the fex at the end of the reaction. 9. From one of the halves generated in step 8, snip a chunk off large enough to fit into the (CLEAN AND DRY) stem that was removed from from the fex, and wedge wedge it into one end. Wedge the smaller funnel into the opposite end and be sure it won’t fall out glue it or tape it. This tube (but can easily be pulled out). Don’t glue will be packed packed with epsoms and and used to slowly dry solvents. If the operator wishes, he or she can construct something sturdy that will hold this tube upright upright and about about a foot from from the ground. Diagram of the drying

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tube. 10. Clean and dry both pickle jars. These jars are going to be filled and emptied and cleaned and dried several times. This is going to use a lot of paper towels, especially if the operator plans on manually wiping crap out instead of rinsing with water. 11. If using starting fluid, spray 300ml (1 can) into a canning jar (MEASURE CAREFULLY) CAREFULLY) and pour into pickle jar. This is MAIN SOLVENT. Spray roughly 400ml (no precision necessary) into a canning jar. This is RINSE SOLVENT . This will be loud/smelly. loud/smelly. Smell will stay in house; the sound might not, though. Cover Cover hands with towel towel to absorb noise noise and smell. Seal it. Beware that when using starting fluid, a small amount of pressure will form in the jar, which can either slowly seep out or cause the jar to break break (not explosively, explosively, but all solvent solvent will be lost). Very low w ord ‘spray’ probability, though. (Camp fuel step 11: replace word with ‘pour’).

12. Fill tube with epsom. Tap steel wool end on ground to pack (as tight as possible). Put a densely rolled bit of paper towel into the small funnel (this slows flow) and wedge into into the tube. Place exit end of drying tube into the empty pickle jar, and very slowly pour half the MAIN MAIN SOLVENT through. through. The slower this is done, done, the dryer the solvent will be, and and the better the yield will be. Yes, starter fluid stinks. When the first half half is done, dump the epsom, repack, and and pour the second half. The RINSE SOLVENT is dried the same way. A thorough operator would repeat this step for both containers of solvent, ensuring dryness. One could also dry with a thick layer of epsom salt (main AND rinse) in the freezer for 24 hours for absolute maximum dryness. 74


13. At this point, the t he operator may prepare his or her will, or make spiritual amends in preparation for the afterlife. afterlife. It is the belief belief of the author of this procedure that the operator is, by choosing to follow this procedure, severely mentally ill, and cannot be punished for this in the afterlife. afterlife. Step 13 is not meant meant as a joke. The author of this procedure does not want unconfessed un confessed sins damning the operator to hell when the fatal consequences of this procedure are are realized.

PREPARATIONS TO BE DONE IMMEDIATELY BEFORE REACTION ONLY The following preparations should only be made if the operator is prepared to finish the last step in this section and immediately begin the first step in the reaction procedure. If somebody knocks on the door from this point on, the operator is not home. When step one of this set of preparations is initiated, i nitiated, the operator must understand that this will take the next two or three hours of his or her undivided attention and effort. 1. Put the large deep pot , ¾ full (3 inches) of tap water, on the stove using high high heat If this pot is overfilled, overfilled, the fex fex will spill some. Not a huge deal but not good good for the stove. stove. Listen for boiling; once boiling, reduce heat to medium. medium. Maintain gentle gentle boil (or near-boiling). 2. Fill a 5-gallon bucket with the whole bag of ice and water until it’s about ¾ full. Make sure the ice is broken enough that the fex can rest in it during the second half of the reaction. 3. Fill another 5-gallon bucket about ¾ full with water and pour 75

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muriatic acid into it for a few seconds (or about 1/3 of the container). The operator shouldn’t need this until later, but in case something goes wrong with the extinguisher during the reaction and the operator somehow survives, this is his or her only safety device. Use of this bucket as a safety device : a) If pressure must be released, released, the operator operator will submerge the fex hose in this bucket and release the pressure pressure as slowly as possible. possible. If the handle is squeezed too hard, liquid reactants will exit the hose. Depending on which reactants and how much, this will either cause brief fizzing or a lithium-ammonia lithium -ammonia detonation. b) If the valve valve fails and ammonia/reactants are leaving via the hose, put hose into the bucket. c) If the valve assembly somehow disintegrates disintegrates and the hose is being bypassed, bypassed, chuck the whole thing upside down into the bucket to (violently and with a huge and dangerous mess) stop the reaction. This will result in a lithium-solvent fire, but removal from heat will cause ammonia (flammable gas) generation to quickly cease.

4. Prepare the workspace. It doesn ’t take a lot of room, but if the operator is cramped, he or she is going to be a lot more nervous and will probably at least knock something over. Don ’t just have things “ready” in a bunch of grocery bags that must be dug through as things are needed. Ideally sit on the floor with the fex front and center with the valve assembly removed and laid nearby to be quickly grabbed and screwed on, with spray hose attached to it, the large funnel (clean and dry) in the opening of o f the fex body, and everything else accessible but not so close that motion is restricted or that standing risks stepping on something. 5. Get the jars of solvent out of the freezer if they’re in there (Not the acetone/alcohol). acetone/alcohol). Remember: the one in the pickle jar is the 76


MAIN SOLVENT and was carefully measured to ensure consistent reaction conditions. Swapping with the 400ml RINSE SOLVENT will result in higher pressure and possible explosions. 6. No matter if this is the first or fifth attempt at this procedure, at this point the operator should pull out this procedure and reread the entire thing. It’s long. Just read it. And, don’t be slack and skim it. Actively search for questions about the procedure. Chances are, if the operator doesn’t understand something in this procedure, it will best-case-scenario best-case-scenario negatively affect affect yield and and worst case kill him or her. Remember, if a mistake is made, the operator can be looking at prison time or death/serious injury. If the operator has not read this procedure several times before the first attempt at this reaction, he or she is at serious risk of life-ending mistakes and is likely far too confident. Now take a deep d eep breath, because this is the last peaceful moment for the next next two hours. This may also also be a) the last peaceful moment of one’s life o r b) the last peaceful moment outside of a prison for the next decade.

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REACTION PROCEDURE BEGINS NEXT PAGE. WHEN STEP 1 OF THE REACTION PROCEDURE HAS BEEN INITIATED, THERE IS NO TURNING BACK. THERE IS NO WAY TO STOP WHAT HAS BEEN STARTED. IT IS IS MORE DEADLY TO ABANDON THE REACTION PROCEDURE THAN IT IS TO PERFORM IT THROUGH. NO AMOUNT AMOUNT OF CONFIDENCE CONFIDENCE WILL STOP STOP THE SINKING SINKING FEELING ONE GETS WHEN BEGINNING THIS PROCEDURE. REGRET, SHAME AND FEAR WILL RESULT FROM INITIATING THIS REACTION. IF AN EXTERIOR EMERGENCY ARISES DURING THE PROCEDURE, UNDERSTAND THAT PAUSING AT ANY POINT DURING THIS PROCEDURE WILL RESULT IN AN EXPLOSION THAT WILL DESTROY THE BUILDING OR REDUCE ITS PROPERTY VALUE TO ZERO DUE TO ITS NEW REPUTATION, REPUTATION, AND PROVIDE ABSOLUTE AND UNDENIABLE UNDENIABLE PROOF OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. WHEN THE REACTION BEGINS, UNDERSTAND THAT AN INVISIBLE LAYER OF EVIDENCE IS DEPOSITED ON EVERY SURFACE OF THE BUILDING IT IS BEING PERFORMED IN. IF THE LAW INSPECTS THIS BUILDING, THERE WILL BE EVIDENCE OF WHAT HAS OCCURRED. THIS EVIDENCE CANNOT BE REMOVED BY ANY AMOUNT OF CLEANING. IT MAY BE IMPOSSIBLE IMPOSS IBLE TO DIRECTLY LINK THIS EVIDENCE TO THE OPERATOR IF THERE HAVE BEEN PAST RESIDENTS. THE AUTHOR OF THIS PROCEDURE PROCEDURE WILL ONCE AGAIN ASK THE OPERATOR TO CONSIDER WHETHER 4 GRAMS OF METH IS WORTH IT. IF THE OPERATOR DECIDES IT IS WORTH IT, HE OR SHE IS WRONG AND SHOULD RECONSIDER. RECONSIDER. 78


THE REACTION The faster these steps are completed, the less fumes and less danger to face. But, if unprepared and rushing, doing these steps quickly increases the chance of mistakes. Bottom line is KNOW THIS PROCEDURE BY HEART before starting. If the operator believes it might might help, mime this procedure without reactants reactants to evaluate hazards. PHASE ONE

1. Pour the ammonium carbonate into the funnel and tap it firmly. Ammonium carbonate stuck to the funnel will react with the NaOH in the next step, meaning ammonia is being generated in the bottom of the fex fex AND on the funnel. Smelly. If everything is dry, the operator shouldn’t smell anything other than ammonium carbonate’s usual ammoni a odor. 2. Pour the sodium hydroxide into the t he fire extinguisher At this point, a reaction is initiated. Keep moving quickly. quickly. Ammonium carbonate plus sodium hydroxide plus ANY amount of water equals premature ammonia gas. 3. Smell the air three seconds after sodium hydroxide is added. This is the test whiff. React according according to the following following table.

- No smell – good, good, keep moving - Faint smell – the the next few minutes might stink, but it ’s fine. Keep moving. - Irritating smell – try not to breathe anymore until the fex is sealed. A mistake mistake has been made made and the operator is in serious 79

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danger. - Lung-freeze – stand stand and lift fex, keeping keeping the fumes away from face. Put fex upside down into acid bucket. The operator has failed, and if he or she continues work after test whiff, he or she will be blinded by the ammonia within within seconds. measured in 4. Pour the MAIN SOLVENT (the 300ml carefully measured the pickle jar, not the roughly 400ml in the canning jar) into the fex from the pickle jar.

If the operator has been directed by step six not to breathe, it is MUCH BETTER to step back and take a breath than to lungs hurt, hurt, BACK UP AND faint. If the operator’s lungs BREATHE. 5. Screw the valve assembly onto the valve body bod y and b e sure it’s snug. Don’t give in to adrenaline adrenaline and overtighten it. If an aluminum extinguisher was used, these are the last the operator operator at any point moments of the operator’s life. If the comes to the sudden realization that an aluminum extinguisher was used, he or she has the freedom to decide simpl y throw the what to do. The author’s suggestion is to simply fex into the acid bucket and run. Come back in 24 hours.

6. Before the operator does anything else, look around. Did everything go go into the fex? Is the ammonia smell smell dissipating? Was the pseudoephedrine pseudoephedrine accidentally accidentally added added to the fex? Is everything still organized and within reach? 7. Check the pressure gauge. It should be sitting at zero. If it ’s already going up, that ’s fine too, but that means the operator beat death by about five seconds. The only impact of reaction between 80


sodium hydroxide and ammonium carbonate is that there is less sodium hydroxide hydroxide to suck suck up water. water. No big deal. 8. Stand up AND THEN bend over and pick up the fex VERY SLOWLY AND GENTLY. THE OPERATOR WILL NEVER AIM THE VALVE ASSEMBLY AT HIS OR HER FACE. 9. Check the pressure gauge again. If it’s still at zero, perfect. There’s really no chance of it skyrocketing before heating. If it’s above zero, be sure it’s below 250psi. If above 250psi, initiate emergency venting. Phase two two must must not not be initiated. Abandon reaction procedure and return to CLEANING THE FEX steps. boiling, that’s fine. fine. Turn it up a little 10. If the water is not quite boiling, bit but do not wait wait before proceeding proceeding to step 11.

11. Rest the fex in the water and on top of the washcloth. If the body of the fex is touching any of the metal of the pot, it could get dangerously and unevenly hot . The washcloth ensures that the temperature of the fex is i s consistent and no higher than the temperature of boiling water. Done properly, the heating of the fex generates VERY little strain. The valve assembly experiences experiences no temperature increase, and the metal of the body bod y is symmetrically expanded along weld-lines and with even heating along curves. 12. Do not let go of the fex. Have a hand on top of it, as if it could fall over at any moment. The operator will be in this position for a little bit. Let’s say it falls on the floor. It the handle somehow compresses and opens the valve, even just a tiny bit for a 81

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split second, set the fex upright and leave the room without breathing. Slowly walk back back toward your your fex and stop if the smell gets very intense. Now, let ’s say it falls over and nothing happens. This will one hundred percent scare the shit out of the operator and his or her heart will be racing until done cleaning hours later. Don’t let it fall. 13. The solvent will suddenly and dramatically reach 133 Fahrenheit. The ammonium carbonate carbonate will start start decomposing, and and the pressure pressure will rise VERY RAPIDLY. RAPIDLY. Be prepared prepared for emergency venting if this pressure pressure goes above above 400psi. It should, assuming proper amounts of chemicals were used, even out around 300-350psi. Remember how the author said that THE AMMONICARB OPERATION is inherently better than the shake n bake? Here’s an example. The pressure of the reaction reaction is double that of the shake n bake, but the gas that’s drivi ng the pressure up up is mostly harmless harmless carbon dioxide. dioxide. The shake n bake, while at lower pressure, produces a reaction vessel of pure ammonia gas. gas. Much more more dangerous. dangerous. doesn’t start, something something went wrong. wrong. There is 14. If the reaction doesn’t no fixing a dead-on-arrival reaction. If ammonium ammonium carbonate was was prepared by the procedure given in this document, document, it should be impossible to have this reaction not work.

15. Once the pressure stops increasing (around 300psi), let it sit in the boiling water for one more minute, and then remove from boiling water water pot (cut the stove stove off). Let it cool cool at room temperature (hold (hold it up in the air) for two minutes. This is the end end of Phase One.

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16. After the two minutes of air-cooling, air-cooling, plunge the fex into the ice water and and set a one-hour timer. Swirl it constantly, constantly, or at least every few seconds. seconds. It cannot cannot be left alone. alone. This will drop the pressure significantly, significantly, help liquefy ammonia, and give give the sodium hydroxide time to suck up the water byproduct. b yproduct. 17. After the hour timer, vent the t he fex normally to around 50psi (place hose in acid bucket, gently release pressure to 50 psi). It is preferable to always have the fex submerged in the ice bucket , i.e. having the two buckets side-by-side. 18. Pour 100ml RINSE SOLVENT into sandwich shaped plastic container. Should be at least a half inch deep. deep. 19. Use the method that was CAREFULLY AND FULLY RESEARCHED AND UNDERSTOOD to extract the lithium foil from a battery. This can take time and be frustrating, even if it’s been done before. Those little bastards bastards are not fun. When finally finally removing the guts (and removing the CORRECT strip), submerge them in the fuel before the th e strip begins deteriorating. Exposure to air will not immediately cause a fire, but it will immediately cause substantial lithium losses. While it’s under the fuel, tear it into strips that’ll fit down the funnel. (It’s very frightening to see that the pieces of lithium are not small enough and are getting stuck in the funnel and having to frantically poke it to get it in there.) 20. The lithium pieces will float in the solvent, which is annoying for the operator. So, every five seconds, until the fex is opened and the lithium poured in, the operator must tap them down with his or her fingers (if hands are wet, there will be an explosion) to keep them coated in solvent (which, in addition to preventing fires, protects the lithium from oxidation, which ruins the the surface of the 83

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foil forming worthless lithium oxide). 21. Vent to 0psi and start unscrewing the valve assembly. Venting during the removal of the valve assembly is mandatory. Tapping down the lithium during unscrewing is mandatory . There is a puddle of fuel and lithium next to gallons of water. Don’t splash the ice water. Don’t get it on hands. 22. A good rhythm rhythm and technique is to hold the valve valve handle with with the right hand and spin the fex body twice with the left hand (keep that water from splashing). The left hand hand then grabs the hose and vents into the acid bucket (venting (venting may feel feel useless. Do it.) The left hand moves from the hose, MUST BE DRY, and taps down the lithium foil. This is repeated. Unscrew, vent, tap. Remember, the main thing is tapping the lithium down. Don’t forget to do this. If the operator operator has just submerged submerged a hand hand and then touches lithium, THERE WILL BE A FIRE, WITHOUT A DOUBT. DO NOT ZONE OUT DURING THIS. Pressure should not be building up much. Keep venting. venting. But again, the most important thing in this moment is to keep that lithium foil coated in solvent. 23. With the valve assembly finally finally removed, the funnel is added, the lithium is added, the pseudoephedrine GUPs are added, and the vessel is once again sealed. 24. When the fex is sealed, IMMEDIATELY IMMEDIATELY begin swirling the fex and DO NOT STOP AT ALL for at least least ten minutes. Use the hand not swirling to set a 1-hour timer. Constant swirling is to ensure that the solvated electrons (from the dissolving lithium) are not all ‘sitting’ in one place. A stagnant fex fex after sealing will cause a) 84


overreduction of pseudoephedrine next to the lithium pieces, b) uneven reduction of everything else, else, and c) slower dissolving of lithium. 25. After the critical critical ten minutes of constant swirling, swirling, be sure to give it a good swirl at least every few seconds for the remaining 50 minutes. 26. After the timer ends, vent the fex (pressure should be around 30-70psi max) and start opening it when prepared for step 27. 27. This step needs needs to be done ASAP once the fex is opened. Have a clean, dry pickle jar and and one of the steel steel wool halves ready. ready. Jam the steel wool half into the opening of the fex and start swirling. The fex smells strongly when opened. 28. The swirling is to avoid settling of NaOH, so keep swirling until immediately before pouring (through the steel wool in the neck) into the clean, dry pickle jar. 29. Remove the steel wool if necessary in order to pour the remaining 300ml 300ml RINSE FUEL into the fex. Swirl to suspend solids again, replace steel wool if necessary, and pour into the same pickle jar. If the operator removed and replaced the steel wool, promptly wipe this hand or rinse rinse with lots of water. water. It has concentrated sodium hydroxide on it. 30. Seal the fex and set aside. Keep an eye eye on the pressure. pressure. Inspect the reaction fluid that was poured into the pickle jar. 31. If there are (this should be impossible) gold/bronze looking blobs on top of the solution, wrap a paper paper towel up AS FAST FAST AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE POSSIBLE and poke the blobs to get them to soak 85

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into the paper paper towel. These must be taken to a sink or toilet. There will be a small explosion upon introduction introduction to water. water. Again, very low chance. 32. If the smell of ammonia is strong enough to seriously irritate the operator, he or she may open the fex again, pour this reaction fluid into it, reseal, set on the ground, and wait for pressure to reach 150psi 150psi before venting. Wait for more more pressure increases increases and vent accordingly. accordingly. This will ensure all ammonia has boiled and been vented. vented. This step is where the acid bucket may start to smell of ammonia. If this happens, pour another third third of the muriatic acid into it. Problem solved. 33. If the smell smell of ammonia was was not too strong, strong, then the operator operator will now begin treating this reaction fluid to ensure it gives up all of its precious, crystalline booty. THE HIGH-DANGER AND TERRIFYING PART OF THIS PROCEDURE IS COMPLETED, BUT THE RISK IS NOT TOTALLY GONE. THE OPERATOR OPERATOR WILL BE BE CAREFUL AND REMEMBER THAT THIS IS STILL FLAMMABLE LIQUID WHILE TREATING IT. THE TREATING OF THIS FLUID FOR THE AMMONICARB OPERATION IS EXTENSIVE AND GUARANTEES A CLEAN-BURNING, POTENT, HIGHLY PURE METH WITH BIG CRYSTALS (IF THE OPERATOR IS PATIENT). THIS CLEANING CLEAN ING IS IS KNOWN AS PHASE THREE AND BEGINS ON THE NEXT PAGE. The obnoxious underlined text can now go away for the author to make a note or two before diving into step three. If this procedure was followed, followed, there will be at least a few few grams of meth. Go ahead and get those hopes up high, because in just j ust a couple hours the 86


operator will finally smoke a bowl and realize that this was n’t just an elaborate prank. Also, now one can put serious thought into getting getting help. The meth has been made, the operator succeeded in not dying d ying during the reaction procedure. procedure. Let this moment moment of peace be one of reflection. reflection. Ask once more, was all that worth it for a few grams of meth? EXTRACTION OF METH FROM REACTION FLUID DON’T SKIP STEPS. THE MOST INSIGNIFICANT INSIGNIFICANT-LOOKING ONES ARE MOST IMPORTANT. THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF PHASE THREE. Note: remember that reaction fluid has meth distributed evenly throughout. That means means that those last few drops when pouring it have some and should be cherished. Remember also that the meth is very ver y dilute in the reaction fluid and that trying to squeegee it off of every surface it touches is going to waste a lot of time, and get the operator about 0.01g extra meth at the end.

1. Take the large funnel, clean it and dry it, and place it in the other pickle jar that that is DRY. Put two two coffee filters filters in it and mash them to be the shape of the funnel. 2. This step takes patience. Pour the reaction fluid through the s. It shouldn’t shouldn’t be unbearably unbearably slow, but if it manages to filter s. completely stop, stop adding liquid, let it pass through, wring the filters out into the funnel, and replace with two fresh ones. 3. Take this filtered reaction fluid and inspect it. If it’s cloudy or has reactants floating in it, stack three more coffee filters into the funnel which is placed in the other pickle jar (CLEANED AND DRIED. NOT STILL FILTHY) and pour through. It should filter much more quickly this time. 87

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4. Pour a one-inch layer of water (preferably distilled but it doesn ’t really matter) into the filtered fuel. It will form a layer at the bottom of the jar (AGAIN, (AGAIN, WATER IS ALWAYS BOTTOM LAYER ). ). Seal the jar and shake it for two entire minutes. If the outside of the jar is not dry, and if the operator’s hands are not dry, the jar will slip and shatter, and there will be no way w ay to recover enough liquid to make further cleaning worth it. Don’t drop it . 5. Let layers separate (meaning the visible interface looks flat, not bubbly or fuzzy). fuzzy). It can take a minute. Slowly pour it into into a sandwich bag and seal it. THIS IS THE BEST STEP FOR SPILLS/LOSING ALL OF OR MOST OF THE METH. The operator will hold the bag as tightly as possible and will be smart about his or her pouring technique. Ensure the layers la yers are still separated. Zip the top and hold it from one upper corner so that the opposite corner is pointed at the ground. Below is a diagram of what this all ‘means’ .

6. Have a waste container. One of the small canning jars is fine. Hold the bag by a corner over the opened jar. Snip the very tip of the lowest corner with scissors (or poke a hole with a needle). The bottom water layer will of course course flow into the waste jar. Be 88


careful, because no matter how carefully one cuts or pokes that corner, there’s a 50/50 chance the water being discarded is going to shoot off at some weird angle a ngle and be annoying and cause a mess. Just pay attention. With the hand that held the scissors, pinch the bag shut at precisely precisely the moment moment that the interface interface of the liquid reaches the hole (The author promises the operator will know what this step means). Move the bag above one of the pickle jars (the one from the first water wash is fine) and let the solvent drain into it. If the operator ‘overshoots’ or allows the water layer and some of the solvent layer to pass through and enter the waste jar, simply get a new sandwich sandwich bag, put the liquids back into it, and try again.

7. Add another inch of water. Shake for two minutes. minutes. Put in a sandwich bag, drain water layer (into same jar as first f irst water layer drain if able). able). Let the TINIEST TINIEST POSSIBLE AMOUNT AMOUNT (one drop) of solvent pass through and end end up in the waste waste jar. This is to ensure that NO WATER LAYER is left in the solvent. Save the water layer just in case. Steps 6 and 7 are water washes. The purpose is to get get anything polar (remember, the reaction fluid has nonpolar freebase meth only) to move into water. This will be mostly sludge sludge and leftover leftover gak/GUPs. gak/GUPs. If one smoked the product without doing water washes, one would be smoking a medicinal-tasting brown tar. 8. Clean and and DRY the other pickle jar. After the next step, step, water touching the reaction fluid will be unacceptable . 9. The water layer is gone, but remember, there are microscopic water droplets dispersed through the reaction fluid . Remember 89

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from earlier that a single ml of water can hold a gram of meth. meth . Grab the drying tube and pack it with new dried epsom salt. 11. Pour 1/3 of the reaction fluid through (delivered of course into a very dry pickle jar) as slowly as possible, then empty, repack, and repeat. Place all epsoms emptied from the tube into a dry canning jar. 12. When all the fluid has been passed through the tube, dump the used epsoms from the jar onto a coffee filter, hold the filter above the pickle jar, and squeeze as much liquid as possible out. 13. When the operator is satisfied that the solvent is good and dry, dr y, (meaning an extra pass through the drying tube, and the optional 24 hours in the freezer with a layer of epsom salt) leave it in a pickle jar with with the lid off. off. As mentioned before, there’s the tiny chance that the lid being on could cause the jar to crack. crack. Leave it off this time. Losing $3 of starting fluid is one thing. Losing Losing 4 grams of meth is a WAY, WAY WORSE THING. FINISHING THE GASSER AND USING IT Beware: When the gasser is complete, it will be active (producing HCl gas) until either flooded with water or until it runs out (several (several hours). The operator must understand that that HCl gas is is not like ammonia. ammonia. Ammonia fumes fumes sting the nostrils and make the operator alert. alert. HCl gas is sour, makes one want to gag, and is physically painful to lungs and nose. Avoid it. 1. Obtain the water bottle with the cap that has the foot or so of latex tube coming out of it. For unbelievably dry HCl gas, one could use two feet of latex tubing rather than than only one. one. A loosely crumpled crumpled 90


coffee filter bit would be inserted into the latex tube with a thin rod, about about 6in deep. From the other other side, the operator operator would tightly pack calcium chloride one foot in length, and then cap with another wad of coffee filter. filter. The drynessdrynessminded operator, of which there are surely a few, will have reached the pinnacle of water-removal (that is achievable a chievable without special drying agents) by enacting this idea. Diagram (the author’s worst -drawn diagram of all time) below.

2. Fill the water bottle half full with calcium chloride. 3. Pour muriatic acid straight from the jug into the water bottle so that it saturates about 3/4 of the calcium chloride. Don’t spill the muriatic acid. 4. Let it sit for about a minute or two. Look at the levels in the gasser. The liquid level (muriatic (muriatic acid) acid) needs to not go above the level of the calcium chloride . This can happen if it is tilted during during gassing and will introduce water vapor in addition to HCl gas. Water is bad. 5. Without squeezing the water bottle, move it to the pickle jar with reaction fluid. 6. Mime the following action to learn it and don’t mess it up or reaction fluid will be sucked into the gasser . There is NO WAY to recover fluid that gets sucked into the gasser. That meth is gone.

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7. Place the end of the tube about a half inch below the surface of the fluid. Slowly compress the water bottle. Bubbles will form from the end of the tube, confirming a good seal was made. 8. Before releasing the compression on the water bottle, lift the tube out of solution, or it will suck reaction liquid into the gasser. The gasser will still work, but good meth is gone. 9. Let the gasser fill back up with air. Put the end back into the solution and squeeze again. Lift the end of the tube out of the liquid and release the hold on the t he bottle. 10. The operator may do this for a minute or two and a nd see nothing happen. That’s fine. Just keep gassing. Get the rhythm down. Only squeeze the bottle when able to visually confirm that the tube is below the surface surface of the solvent, solvent, and only release the grip when when able to visually confirm that the tube is out of the solvent. Every now and then, gently agitate the contents of the th e gasser by shaking side to side or squeezing the bottom of the water bottle. Every two minutes let the gasser sit for a minute to release air and to let HCl gas build up. 11. Eventually, the operator will see something that will make all the stress about cops and smells and paranoia melt away; where the gas bubbles touch the solution, tiny crystals of meth will form. The operator may see the solution start to turn milky or may see actual crystals form and sink to the bottom of the liquid. 12. Agitate the reaction fluid when it seems that the gassing is done. Gas some more. Let the crystals settle for a few minutes before filtering filtering as it’ll go a lot quicker. If the crystals are small enough they won’t settle. Just wait a minute and see if settling is happening.

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13. Again, avoid the level of liquid in the gasser breaching the surface of the calcium chloride. This will introduce small amounts of water into the gas. It won’t add a lot of water, but it could lose a little bit of product. 14. Get a single coffee filter and place it in the funnel. Pour the fluid through the filter and into a WATER-FREE pickle jar. Remove the filter and set it aside. This filter is holding a small amount of meth. Don’t fucking step on it. The second gas will produce many more crystals, so don’t be disappointed yet if the first filtration failed to impress. 15. Begin the gassing of the freshly filtered reaction fluid again. The operator will will instantly see crystals form. LOTS LOTS of them. Gas and filter with the same coffee filter (using the same filter avoids losses that would be caused by meth being trapped in the fibers of multiple filters). 16. At this point, the pickle jars can be used as is without drying or cleaning. Once the reaction fluid had been filtered and also had water removed, cleaning or drying the pickle jars became pointless. 17. Repeat the gassing until gassing for a solid minute produces zero crystals. crystals. Wait two two minutes and try again. again. If there there are still no crystals, empty empty the gasser into into the toilet and and flush it. Refill with calcium chloride chloride and muriatic acid. Wait two minutes and and gas. This will ensure that the operator doesn’t give up on gassing when in reality there’s simply no gas. A last resort would be to pass the reaction fluid through the epsom drying tube one more time to ensure dryness. That probably won’t do anything , though. When the operator is sure that gassing is done, filter the reaction fluid one last time.

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18. The operator may discard the reaction fluid now. The author of this procedure is not sure how reusing it would turn out. The concentration of diethyl ether would gradually decrease d ecrease and eventually it would be full of invisible crap that would taint a new batch, especially especially those pill fillers fillers from the GUPs, but the operator operator can try it if solvent is hard to acquire. If one could reliably clean the solvent it would save some money over time, as each batch uses about $6 of nonpolar solvent. 19. Do not heat the filter to dry it. Do not set it in front of directly blowing air . Softly pinch out excess liquid and set it somewhere where it can dry without being disturbed . If this blows over or gets knocked over or whatever, whatever, and it made it this far, it’ll be beyond sad . Be patient patient and careful careful with the dry filter and remember that somewhere some poor sap has had a blow dryer aimed at a casserole dish for two hours, after spending another hour trying to neutralize the pH, all because “gassing is too complicated.” The operator is now in possession of crystal meth, aka methamphetamine methamphetamine HCl. This is the good good stuff. stuff. One can can test it now to see its cleanliness. Put a pinch of of powder (¼ the the size of a pinkie nail) in the pipe or on a spoon. Heat it from below. below. It should fume and then disappear, with no residue (or only onl y a slightly off-color spot.) spot.) The operator need need not stress if a brown stain is left over; the acetone wash (coming up next) will really wipe out any leftover crud. If this procedure is used to make sticky, gooey, foul peanut butter crank, crank, then the producer producer of that substance substance can rest assured that the author author of this procedure procedure feels betrayed. betrayed. The cleaning steps only take an hour or so, and if skipped once will never be skipped again. The author of this procedure procedure skipped a water wash once. One cannot accurately describe describe the pain of smoking incredibly potent meth with an absolutely dastardly flavor. 94


Next up is the acetone acetone wash, followed by recrystallization. recrystallization. Then, the operator simply puts things away and cleans the fex and is DONE, and FREE to enjoy ALL THAT METH. WHAT TO DO WITH TINY CRYSTAL ACETONE WASH 1. Powderize the the crystals with a credit card. card. Really crush them them well. Put them into a coffee filter filter and gently shake the meth back and forth to ensure they weren’t crushed TOO w ell. If the crushing process is frustrating and the operator at this point is wondering why this meth is so hard to chop up, then the operator has never had anything other than n-iso cut cartel garbage and should be really excited. Real meth is white, not crystal clear, forms chunky crystals rather than long flat ones, is hard to crush, and dissolves VERY fast in water. 2. Take the dry acetone out of the freezer. Open the lid and work quickly, as acetone will start sucking moisture from the air immediately. Pour this water free, ice cold cold acetone carefully carefully and slowly from the jar over the meth in the filter. This will wash away some impurities and only cause a very small (insignificant) loss of meth. Be careful to not let the epsoms in the bottom of the acetone jar spill into the meth. It’ll be a pain to separate. 3. If the acetone is holding water, the meth will “melt”. If that happens, just stop pouring acetone over it, put the acetone that melted the meth in a glass dish, and let it evaporate. Acetone smells like nail polish remover (and is the key ingredient in most formulations). Nail polish remover, as everybody knows, is not such an unpleasant smell but is certainly noticeable, and as the acetone goof evaporates, the smell will linger.

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4. If the operator can’t tell whether a lot of meth melted or not, just dry the washings to be safe. If there’s a lot of powder/crystals formed from the evaporated acetone, then redry the acetone and do it again. RECRYSTALLIZATION 5. Let the crystals totally dry from the acetone wash. 6. Place in a jar or appropriately sized container (shot glass is good). Boil a few tablespoons of denatured alcohol from the freezer. Use a spoon (or preferably an eye dropper but it doesn ’t really matter) to scoop up very small bits of this boiling alcohol and quickly pour it over the meth. Add just enough to dissolve all the crystals. 7. If the operator wants this done quick and is happy with small crystals, then pop the container/shot glass into the freezer and wait a few hours. Crystals will form. When they stop growing, take them out, or just let the alcohol mostly evaporate and then pour out what’s still liquid and discard. Give the crystals a splash of acetone if desired, as according to some people the surface of the newly formed crystals is where the most impurities are hiding. 8. If the operator is patient, let l et the solution cool at room temperature for a day for bigger (but not that big) crystals. 9. If one wants one can keep recrystallizing to get bigger and bigger crystals, crystals, but beware that there is a small loss to each each recrystallization. recrystallization. When the operator only made about 4g at best it can be hard to justify letting any an y of it go down the drain. 10. Put the meth in in a sandwich bag bag or a jar. It’s too much to fit in little drug bags, and trying to cram it in will only risk spillage. 96


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The average operator will most likely be wondering what all is necessary necessary to do another attempt. If the procedure was followed properly, the only thing needed for a second attempt is another 5.7g pseudoephedrine, more np solvent (if needed), and a couple hours to clean the fex and and reorganize reorganize everything. Yes, the first attempt costs costs around $250USD. $250USD. The second attempt, attempt, meaning meaning the second chance to get 4 grams of meth (or more) is then about $30. The third attempt is also this cheap. cheap. To be frank, the only time an expensive batch will happen is if the operator is forced to replace the fex, needs to make new ammonium carbonate, etc. Remember. Do not get get greedy. greedy. Do not get lazy. Do not get cocky. Only get pseudoephedrine pseudoephedrine when when the chance is presented to the operator, NOT NOT OUT OF DESPERATION DESPERATION.. Desperation (i.e. drug cravings) is exactly what will ruin a batch (or get one arrested arrested for smurfing smurfing 4 blocks blocks from the house). house). A good rule of thumb is to never do this procedure more than three or four times a month. This means don’t be clever by b y telling friends that they can bring the operator operator two boxes of of meth and have have 2g for free. free. This will overload the operator, and and mistakes can can be made. Nobody is more upset than somebody who tried to get 2g of meth for $20 and then was let down. The responsible operator will promptly clean, dry, and inspect the fex. Following this page is a series of appendices to provide extra information. information. They will not make make or break the safety or yield of the procedure, but again, the curious operator gets the highest yields. APPENDIX I HAS STEPS FOR DISPOSAL OF TRASH

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APPENDIX A MASTER MATERIALS LIST

LISTED ATERIALS HAVE REDUNDANCIES. SOME MATERALS HAVE SPECIAL NOTES FOLLOWING THE MASTR LIST. FEX PREP: A wire coat hanger or thin, flexible rod ; Any consumer-grade consumer-grade rust remover that is designed for soaking parts; Paper towels; A kitchen sink ; An oven ; A razor/scissors; An extension cord (very long); An electric skillet ; A wash cloth; A back yard ; Binoculars; A way to measure roughly 300ml (canning jars are perfect); A pot of water ; 300ml NP solvent; 103g Ammonium carbonate; 100g Sodium hydroxide; 5-gallon bucket; Muriatic acid ; REACTION: 5.7g pseudoephedrine; 200g sodium hydroxide; 100g ammonium carbonate; 2 cans starting fluid or 700+ml camp fuel; 4 lithium batteries (3 backups); 1 gallon muriatic acid ; 1 tub calcium chloride; acetone; denatured alcohol; 8lb epsom salt; chemical rust remover ; water ; latex hose; scale; sandwich bags; spongey steel wool; 2 large pickle jars; basket AND cone coffee filters; blender/pill crushing method ; spoon; lithium tools; two 5gallon buckets; scissors; large plastic funnel ; small plastic funnel ; large deep pot; large washcloth; paper towels; sandwich shaped container ; lots of canning jars ; needle nose pliers ; bag of ice AMMONIUM CARBONATE: 5-gallon bucket; white sheet of paper ; 2.5lb baking soda; 1gal household ammonia; muriatic acid ; aluminum foil; 1 red cabbage; a flashlight or good lighting; sandwich bags; stove/electric skillet ; water ; deep pot; wooden/plastic stirrer NOTES ON REQUIRED MATERIALS FOR FIRST ATTEMPT: 1. A lot of ammonium carbonate carbonate will be be made. At least 250g must be made to test the fex and carry out the reaction. 98


2. At least 300g sodium hydroxide h ydroxide and one-liter nonpolar solvent are needed to test the fex and carry out the reaction. 3. Two 5-gallon buckets cover everything. 4. THIS THIS LIST IS OVERWHELMING. OVERWH ELMING. Trust the author; gathering the materials is the hard part. part. The reaction is a breeze in comparison.

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APPENDIX B THE AUTHOR’S TEN COMMANDMENTS OF THE AMMONICARB OPERATION

Of the extremely important sentences in red throughout this procedure, ten have been selected selected as a convenient convenient set of rules rules that must be MEMORIZED, WORD FOR WORD before a new operator is ready to attempt this procedure. Safety: There are more more than four four safety requirements to remember. These are just four four memorable one that will hopefully hopefully build a framework framework of safety within the operator’s mind. 1. Every substance, (solid, liquid or gas) in this procedure is primed to kill. Don’t breathe them in. Don ’t touch them. 2. Stainless-steel extinguishers make meth. Aluminum extinguishers make bombs. The vessel vessel must be stainless-steel. 3. Attempting this procedure is definitive proof of severe mental illness. 4. The operator will never aim the valve assembly at his or her face. Preparation: When getting nervous or overwhelmed overwhelmed at the store, store, these four points are calming to remember. 5. Getting the items together is the worst part, and online purchasing is is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN. FORBIDDEN. 6. Get a VPN and do searches s earches with an anonymous search engine. 7. Ask for the big box of [{[name brand]}] congestion. 8. Cashiers, store managers, and pharmacists pharmacists will not call the cops. Afterwards: Just because the operator operator successfully made meth doesn’t mean mean ANYTHING in this guide guide can be forgotten. forgotten. If one used this guide to make meth, then this guide will forever be a part of his or her life. For better or for worse, don’t take it for granted. These last two points sum up the importance of maintaining a cautious attitude and, hopefully, will keep the operator safe from pride. 9. A single ml of water can hold a gram of meth. 100


10. Do not get greedy. Do not not get lazy. Do not get cocky. Only get pseudoephedrine when the chance is presented to the operator, NEVER OUT OF DESPERATION. DESPERATION.

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APPENDIX C ALTERNATIVE SOURCES FOR CHEMICALS AND EQUIPMENT As procedures age, materials vanish from shelves or change their ingredients, ingredients, certain certain actions become become illegal, illegal, etc. THE AMMONICARB AMMONICARB OPERATION attempts to prepare for these changes to the chemical market. market. These are just jumping-off jumping-off points, not instructions. One must research research these ideas THOROUGHLY THOROUGHLY in order to apply them to anything in this document.

1. The fex. fex. If stainless-steel stainless-steel extinguishers extinguishers are taken off the the market, an expert in electroplating can make even aluminum extinguishers safe. This could be done alone (and must be done flawlessly) flawlessly) only after hours of thorough research into electroplating have been done. Remember that that one tiny spot spot not electroplated electroplated (thus exposing aluminum) is JUST AS EXPLOSIVE as using plain aluminum. PERFECT, EVEN EVEN plating is the ONLY acceptable plating. 2. Sodium hydroxide hydroxide and muriatic muriatic acid. The sodium hydroxide is easy; muriatic acid is tough. A simple electrolytic cell cell is constructed from household materials. Distilled water water and table table salt are added, added, and a current current is passed through through it. Sodium hydroxide solution forms and becomes more concentrated over time on one side, while the other side releases chlorine and hydrogen gas. gas. These two gases can get forced together (not easy) easy) and then bubbled through distilled water for VERY pure muriatic acid. This is annoying annoying and dangerous, but table salt is never never going to become a watched chemical. (There is also a way to turn sulfuric acid [liquid drain cleaner sold in containers wrapped in plastic bags] bags] into muriatic acid, acid, as well.) 3. Lithium Lithium metal. metal. This is very dangerous. Less risk of death, but greater risk (almost guarantee) of thermal and chemical burns. 102


Solid sodium hydroxide, when heated to nearly 600 Fahrenheit and set up in an electrolytic cell like the one stated above, will produce pure sodium that that floats on the molten sodium hydroxide. Sodium metal is actually better for the reaction, as it is less likely to overreduce meth. One should have mineral oil in a canning jar jar to store the sodium metal, as it, (like lithium) is very sensitive to moisture and oxygen. Use 4 grams sodium metal rather than a lithium strip. The author would would not recommend recommend storing this for more than a few hours and would suggest freezing it or watching it constantly. 4. Pseudoephedrine Pseudoephedrine HCl. This is the alternative alternative the operator operator is dying for. Well, there are two options, both doable, doable, but neither neither easy. One should do both if possible. a) The easier and slower of the two sources would be to acquire Ma Huang seeds (legal in the US as of this writing), grow the plants in loose, sandy soil, and then to harvest the entire plant (root and all). Ma Huang is from 2-10% ephedrine derivatives by weight, meaning a pound of Ma Huang plant contains between 10-40g of pseudoephedrine, pseudoephedrine, ephedrine, and and norephedrine norephedrine freebase. freebase. This will produce produce some l-meth with a little bit of amphetamine (prescription study pills) mixed in.

b) The faster faster and much more more complicated complicated source would be the conversion of artificial almond flavoring (benzaldehyde) (benzaldehyde) to something called l-PAC using yeast fermentation, similarly to the brewing of beer. With production of methylamine (very (very smelly, but totally overthe-counter) and reaction between l-PAC and methylamine, one produces produces l-ephedrine. L-ephedrine will make pure pure dmeth. It is very very easy to turn 100g 100g of benzaldehyde benzaldehyde into 20g 103

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l-PAC, which will make over 20g l-ephedrine. 5. Ammonium Carbonate. This is made from baking soda soda (never going to be watched), household ammonia (never going to be watched) and muriatic acid (production (production described above). This chemical, the heart and soul of THE AMMONICARB OPERATION, is safe! 6. Nonpolar solvent. It would be incredibly difficult difficult for the DEA DEA to watch all nonpolar solvents, as they make up about a thousand consumer goods. If starting fluid or camp fuel is removed, it’s time for for research research into alternatives. alternatives. Here are a couple tips: that red red electronics cleaner is NO LONGER LONGER HEXANE. Toluene is OVER A HUNDRED DOLLARS PER CONTAINER. 7. Calcium chloride. chloride. Without this, one is in a tough tough s pot. It’s important, but not critical enough enough to warrant warrant its production. production. If this is no longer available, which is unlikely as it’s not a ‘meth chemical,’ one one must switch to a different different gassing method. The new gassing method will likely be more complicated and less convenient but won’t shut down meth production. 8. Epsom Epsom salt. salt. This should should never never be removed from stores. stores. As in, this would be the last chemical chemical removed from from stores. But, if it is, one must find a way to acquire a magnesium salt and a sulfate salt and figure out a way to react them. It would be be worth a substantial substantial undertaking to acquire magnesium sulfate (epsom salt). As one can can see, this procedure procedure is very resilient. And, now that the operator knows how to check the sds sheet (which stands for safety data sheet, by the way), he or she doesn’t need to rely on wild goose chases over chemicals that haven’t been in stores for years and can think for oneself. The order that the author of this procedure predicts the removal of these chemicals (if this procedure becomes popularly 104


known) is first, pseudoephedrine pseudoephedrine is made prescription. prescription. Next, lithium batteries. After that, muriatic acid, acid, sodium hydroxide, hydroxide, and uric acid (which isn’t used in this procedure but is the fastest sulf uric route to muriatic acid). On the other hand, IF OPERATORS FOLLOW THE AUTHOR’S LEAD AND DON’T DISCUSS BRA ND NAMES OR STORE NAMES IN A PUBLIC WAY, THE REMOVAL OF THESE PRODUCTS CAN BE DELAYED BY YEARS . NO EXAGGERATION. EXAGGERATION. NO PROPER NOUNS, NOUNS, PERIOD. PERIOD. DON’T BLOW THIS FOR EVERYBODY. It would take an incredible, sweeping, unmanageable spreading of this document for the procedure to be responsible for removing items from stores. Don’t worry, but always be prepared, and go ahead and buy brewing equipment AND Ma Huang seeds.

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APPENDIX D ABOUT THE AUTHOR & HISTORY OF THE AMMONICARB OPERATION

For those wondering, HMLIHYC is pronounced as, “Heimlich,” as in the Heimlich Heim lich maneuver. The author of this procedure started using meth when prescription amphetamines amphetamines got got too expensive. Since then, the author has had varying amounts of luck in controlling this incredibly powerful substance. substance. The author would would never suggest suggest meth use to a non-user, does not believe meth to be a ‘perfect drug,’ and recognizes the the problems of meth. But, let’s co co mpare it to alcohol. Everybody gets gets drunk. The author of this procedure drank drank aily, for over a decade. Friends didn’t didn’t care, care, and heavily, and d aily, societal norms never asserted that it was much of a problem. Alcoholism is normalized, even funny, and is present in commercials, commercials, film, reality TV, in public, etc. Everybody gets gets drunk, some people get wasted, and nobody cares. Well, the author of this procedure quit alcohol overnight after trying meth. Instead of being being in a drunken drunken stupor 5 hours hours a author smokes meth once a week. It’s day 7 days a week, the author about as expensive but has few health risks (with non-chronic use). The author is able to think rationally and responsibly (as long as the author hasn’t been awake for more than two nights), is able to be productive, productive, to have good conversations, and REMEMBERS THE WHOLE WHOLE THING! But one would would never see a meth user presented as anything but a homeless, IV IV using, hopelessly addicted criminal in any kind of media. Now, compare compare meth to cocaine. cocaine. Cocaine is more neurotoxic, more addictive, more likely to cause sudden death, and incites violence nearly on par with alcohol use. (Guess how low meth violence is on this list). li st). But, movies show cocaine use, people talk about cocaine, people people talk about about how much they LOVE 106


cocaine, and American culture simply rolls with it. Can meth cause psychotic delusions? Yes. So can cocaine. So can can alcohol. alcohol. So can can rage. Should alcohol be be banned banned because because of how many people are beaten to death by b y those under its influence, or because of how many people are killed by cars driven by those under its influence, influence, or are otherwise abused? No, because because the fault is in the person, person, not the chemical. chemical. The same goes goes for meth. The double standard is infuriating for the author. Some brag that smoking smoking marijuana helped them quit drinking; for the author of this material, it was meth. meth. Who cares? To summarize this rambling complaint: the author has had trouble controlling meth use in the past, but meth use eliminated the souldeadening alcohol alcohol use that the author had been subject to. Meth can be a positive thing for some people and a negative thing for others, just like alcohol and cocaine. But anyway; how did this ordinary meth user become an author of such an in-depth and creative procedure? The author has scientific experience and is of a curious and obsessive mind. It took only a week or so before before using meth turned into studying studying meth. The author quickly quickly came to understand understand some key points about the availability of meth information on the internet; it is spotty at best. At the time of the author’s first expedition into the world of meth chemistry, procedures were already becoming obsolete (due to chemicals chemicals becoming less available). available). In addition, addition, these procedures were were already impossible impossible for the layman to comprehend, comprehend, being presented presented as laboratory reports rather than than useful guides. guides. Complex setups and glassware are commonplace in this category of procedures, and defined the overall attitude of ‘good’ procedures as as elitist and exclusionary. exclusionary. This formed one end end of the meth procedure spectrum. As these procedures faded into oblivion, they were not replaced with with new procedures of equal caliber. Instead, the the opposite end of the spectrum filled the void; the shake n bake. 107

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Documentaries Documentaries on tv and internet articles all leapt to describe the simplicity of the shake n bake, causing meth meth users to look it i t up and attempt it with whatever information information one could could find online. One can search the big video site and even watch a cop perform a shake n bake. The problem is that these procedures are not written by authors, scientists, scientists, teachers, or safety specialists. specialists. Instead, one that brags enough enough about success with with shake n bake bake eventually feels the need to prove prove his or her technique as legitimate. legitimate. Unfortunately, Unfortunately, these checklist procedures rely on as much superstition and handme-down beliefs as they do on actual chemistry; and don’t get the author started started on safety or preparation. preparation. All safety notes notes are after thoughts, all preparations are streamlined to provide no information on what one should look out for, etc. So, the author chose chose to attempt attempt solving this problem. The author began writing a clarified shake n bake, and then struck gold when the idea for THE AMMONICARB OPERATION appeared one day. This new procedure procedure was discovered discovered and perfected perfected by taking the shake n bake, imagining it done in a fire extinguisher for safety, and then walking a few steps backward to see what else could be done in such a versatile and easily attainable reaction vessel. Of course this new, comprehensive and revolutionary meth procedure involved involved a lot of effort, effort, and so the author hopes hopes that the reader will respect the attempted monetization of the author’s work. If this document document ends up being pirated or shared online, online, understand that that the author is simply glad it is being shared. shared. If the reader ever has the opportunity, the author would greatly appreciate an actual purchase of this material (assuming it is ever for sale). This seems too good to be true, true, doesn’t it? it? Well, do some some research. Make sure sure it adds up. One possibility: law enforcement could modify this procedure to make it deadly, deadl y, get a news-worthy death, and use the story to further persecute persecute meth users. To avoid 108


being the victim victim of the law, ensure ensure the numbers numbers and chemicals chemicals “make sense.” If this document document is purchased purchased from from a reliable source, this risk of law enforcement tampering is removed. Always better safe than sorry, and in this case safer for the operator means means modest financial stability for the author. author. Win-win!

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APPENDIX E THE NEXT-LEVEL REACTION VESSEL

There are three ways to bring a stainless-steel st ainless-steel extinguisher to the next level in terms of safety, professionalism, and personalization. The first way is electroplating. Like Like in the alternative sourcing appendix, a THOROUGH KNOWLEDGE OF ELECTROPLATING ELECTROPLATING IS REQUIRED. REQUIRED. The only things better than steel for this reaction, realistically, are PURE gold and platinum; metals so inert inert that they never never tarnish. A VERY healthy 10micron interior coating with gold or platinum will be less than a thousand dollars, and will create a chemically-impervious reaction vessel. One must take take care care to never scratch the insides if a plating is applied (and the operator BETTER know what he or she is doing i.e. LOTS OF RESEARCH). Again, a hole the size of the head of of a pencil totally totally invalidates the the plating. A flexible camera with a high resolution and good color quality qualit y will allow full, detailed inspection of any metal plating. The second way is through detonation-proofing: a few cans of sprayable polyurethane, thin fabric, and very long nylon rope, 1/8 or 1/4 inch inch thick are needed. needed. Spray polyurethane in thick layer around fex body only. Wrap the thread very slowly around the body at an angle that shifts shifts from flat to 45 45 degrees, never overlapping and and never leaving a gap. This will be a mess. mess. Gaps, overlaps, and slack nylon rope creates weak points, defeating the reinforcement reinforcement entirely. When the rope is fully wrapped, wrapped, polyurethane is then sprayed sprayed so that it totally saturates the nylon nylon rope. Layers are are added until the rope rope is totally encased in polyurethane. polyurethane. One could then wrap wrap rope around again, perpendicular to the direction of the original original wrapping, then coat with polyurethane again. If done properly, this vessel is rock solid (at least the sides are.) On the bottom, one one should spray polyurethane, polyurethane, cut fabric so that it fits on the the bottom (as shown below) covering covering the welds, and repeat until until five or so layers layers (or 110


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The reaction vessel can really be taken to extremes of safety and chemical inertness. But never, ever think that this can go above test pressure. The further modified fex is now safer for ordinary reaction conditions, not made to handle higher pressures or temperatures. The third (and very extreme) modification is plating or total replacement of of the valve assembly. assembly. This means perfectly perfectly threading the new assembly, having ACTUAL FEX GASKETS, a pressure gauge, a valve, a handle to operate the valve, etc. This modification must be stress-tested. This is less of of a guaranteed guaranteed improvement; it could certainly make the fex less safe. safe. But, if done correctly, safety valves (that open at 350psi), temperature gauges, and even a sight glass, perhaps, can be added to the vessel. The easier version than rebuilding the valve assembly is just to disassemble the valve assembly, plate it in an extremely tough metal, and then plate it with pure gold or platinum to pacify it (make it unreactive). One would then replace the plated parts, and then stress test it. If one spends ALL THAT TIME AND EFFORT performing these modifications PROPERLY, the fire extinguisher is now safer than most pillows. Of course, the reaction is still dangerous; dangerous; a lot of chemical handling happens when putting things into the fex and 111

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when taking things out. But, the “possibly dying dying at any moment,” feeling will be relieved. Some additional minor improvements would be studying o ring and gasket materials and installing installing more rugged rugged parts. Using Teflon Tape on the valve assembly threading whenever initiating Phase One will reduce the wear and tear on the critical gasket there. One could even even go far beyond beyond the ideas of the author of this material, study reactor design and reinforcement, and really dominate the homemade reaction vessel game. Remember, the more work that is put into this reaction vessel, the more consistent, safe and personalized the vessel becomes. But beware, beware, it becomes even harder to dispose of. $700 worth of pure platinum inside of the fex means one will be very reluctant reluctant to ditch it if need need be. A nylon-wrapped fex is clearly a reaction vessel. vessel. If the operator operator has put that much much effort into into customizing the reaction vessel, he or she can similarly have put effort into either a) having a very elaborate method of hiding the vessel or b) having a very elaborate story behind its existence. The author can’t stress this e nough. If done right, there is a PRACTICALLY PRACTICALLY 0% CHANCE of the law pursuing the operator. Purchasing this book doesn’t let the law search the operator’s house. Purchasing the monthly maximum of pseudoephedrine pseudoephedrine doesn’t let the law search the operator’s ho use. DON’T SELL THE METH. DON’T BRAG ABOUT MAKING IT. DON’T ROUSE SUSPICION, AND ONE CAN GET AWAY WITH THIS FOR LIFE VERY EASILY.

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APPENDIX F EXTRA CHEMISTRY NOTES, ASSORTED 1. Gas pressure. First, some perspective. Normal atmospheric pressure is 15psi. The bottom of a deep swimming pool is 20psi, and the top of Mount Everest is around 5psi. That’s a very narrow range for human comfort, so one can understand how damaging a sudden release of 300psi can be be to a human being. The two ideas below will help one to think about about gas critically. critically. So, if one needs to predict what kind of changes are about to happen gas-wise, one can remember them. a) Gas flows from high pressure pressure to low pressure. pressure. When the reader expands his or her lungs, he or she creates a low pressure area (aka a weak vacuum). Normal Normal atmospheric pressure is higher, so the gas gas (air) moves from from outside the body (15psi) (15psi) to inside the lungs lungs (~13psi). The same is true with an exploding exploding reaction reaction vessel. The gas is no longer being held because because the vessel broke, so the the 300psi gas VERY RAPIDLY RAPIDLY flows to the 15psi atmosphere. This gas movement is what makes an explosion happen. b) The equation equation PV = nRT. The algebra is unnecessary, but a good number of gas laws are derived from it using the imagery of a balloon. 1. As external pressure increases, volume (size of balloon) MUST decrease. 2. As temperature increases, either internal pressure or volume of balloon MUST increase. 3. As amount of gas in the balloon increases, either internal pressure or volume of balloon MUST increase. 4. The opposite of the above above rules rules are also true, i.e. as temperature decreases, either pressure or volume of the balloon MUST decrease. decrease.

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In reaction a), hydrochloric or muriatic acid is added to water. The HCl molecule molecule falls apart into into H+ (a positively positively charged hydrogen ion). When sticking one’s hand into muriatic acid, it is this H+ ion that burns skin off. In reaction reaction b), sodium sodium hydroxide is added to water. This produces OHOH- (water missing a hydrogen and with a negative charge). When sticking one’s hand into a sodium sodium hydroxide solution, it is this OH- that burns skin off. Finally, in reaction c) HCl and NaOH are mixed together. The sodium from the base and the chloride from the acid turn into table salt, and the H+ produced by the acid combines with the OH- produced by the base to produce regular water. Thus, one can think of acids and bases as each producing one (very reactive) reactive) half of water. water. When this half of water (again, (again, either the H+ or the OH-) meets its other half (both halves on their own are very reactive) it forms harmless water. And that is why acid base chemistry is so enormous in chemistry; so much chemistry uses water, and so many different chemicals can split water into its very v ery reactive halves (or produce them). And, lastly for acids and bases, is the idea of pH. Don’t worry what pH stands for: It’s a measurement of how acidic a solution is (as in, how much more acid is present than base). This number will be between 0 (extremely acidic) and 14 (extremely 114


basic). 7 is perfectly neutral (plain water water should be almost exactly 7). To approach approach 7 (i.e. neutral neutral and safer to handle) one adds adds base to an acidic solution or acid to a basic solution. solution. A great example example of this is in the production of ammonium chloride in this procedure: Muriatic acid is neutralized neutralized with basic ammonia until a pH near 7 is achieved. 3. Stoichiometry. This is a new word for some, but don’t start sweating. Look again again at the below reaction:

Now, the way way this reaction looks looks is that one molecule of HCl is required for every molecule of NaOH. The problem is that one cannot get a pair of tweezers and count atoms; one is forced to use use weight. So, one gram of HCl reacts with one gram of NaOH, right? right? Wrong! The HCl molecule molecule weighs weighs a little less than the NaOH. This means that less weight of HCl would be required required to neutralize a larger weight of NaOH. But how does one one figure out how much exactly one would use? Well, when searching “HCl mw” on a search engine, the number 36 pops up. When searching “NaOH mw,” the number number 40 pops up (and mw is just an abbreviation to help find this ratio). ratio). So, it takes 36 grams grams pure HCl (if it was 100% concentrated. Muriatic acid IS NOT) NOT) to react exactly exactly with 40g NaOH. This means that 72 grams HCl would react with 80g NaOH, or 36 pounds HCl would react with 40 40 pounds NaOH. The key lesson is that one must must know the mw result to find out how much other reactant is required for a complete reaction.

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The ‘old’ or ’biker meth’ path makes meth (below) by combining the left half of the molecule (the hexagon plus the middle parts) with the far-right far-right half of the molecule. It is incredibly easy to do in truly massive batches when the two chemicals are available. available. These chemicals, known as P2P (left) and methylamine/methylformam methylamine/methylformamide ide (right), were bought in industrial quantities by biker ga ngs in the 80’s and turned into racemic (less potent) meth in the order of thousands of pounds per day per lab. The reaction was done by b y experienced bikers, was relatively safe, and had h ad an almost non-existent environmental impact. Of course, the law doesn’t care about these positive aspects. Like a spoiled toddler, the government government screams “METH BAD!” and slams a fist onto any trace of it. Now, there are dozens of less direct procedures, all of which have different ways of making P2P and methylamine, then mixing them together as was done in the 80’s. This is all that the the author can can say about P2P methods, as this path is referred to, but the quick facts are: racemic meth, exclusively high batches (100g+), smelly and obvious, requires special equipment, requires many individual steps to produce P2P .

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All the below methods require the pseudoephedrine HCl to be extracted from the GUPs. This is a huge, huge, frustrating, frustrating, messy and and time-consuming task. The shake n bake (not described here) and THE AMMONICARB OPERATION are the only methods that are designed to use crude GUPs. – This is the “easy” and “safe” route to meth HI/P method – This if one can get at least an ounce (28g) of pure pseudoephedrine ps eudoephedrine HCl. One needs just just two chemicals, chemicals, which are red red phosphorous (scraped from matchbook strike pads) and iodine (taken from disinfectant solutions). solutions). After a day of preparing the ingredients, ingredients, they are mixed with the pseudoephedrine and boiled for 24 hours. Too much heat, heat, and deadly phosphine gas will be formed. It hugs floors and will detonate without any provocation. Additionally, a distillation step is required as the HI/P method’s crude product is toxic. The up side is that it’s very difficult to fuck this method up, even as as a beginner. Keep the heat heat low and meth will come out in 80% yield minimum. Birch method – This – This is the “grandfather” procedure to THE AMMONICARB OPERATION OPERAT ION and the shake n bake. It can make a pound of meth in half an hour, if the pure pseudoephedrine and anhydrous ammonia are already available. available. One uses ice water (in the middle of NOWHERE or ELSE) to chill ammonia so it boils off more slowly. Lithium is added in an ‘exact’ amount. The birch is squeaky squeaky clean and fast fast as hell, but a) too much lithium or b) not enough will leave either either a) overreduced overreduced product or b) pseudoephedrine pseudoephedrine in product. Chloroephedrine – This This is an outdated method popularized (and (and presented as simple and quick) by Uncle Fester’s 117

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books. It is two steps; a chlorinating chlorinating step (all these chemicals are impossible to obtain) and a catalytic hydrogenation step (using a catalyst that is impossible to obtain). Toxic byproducts byproducts are produced, including unreacted unreacted chloroephedrine. chloroephedrine. Push/Pull – The The HI/P method but with clever siphoning of liquid. Functionally useless. That’s about it. The P2P methods methods are vastly more variable variable a nd thus impossible to describe describe effectively effectively in this short appendix. The author will touch on a subject also mentioned in Appendix C: which is an extension of the second path. There are three ways wa ys to acquire pseudoephedrine, (aside from the pharmacy), and of course all pseudoephedrine feeds into the second path, which is why this is i s simply an extension. Anyway: 1. Extremely involved, full-synthese full-s ynthesess of pseudoephedrine. Generally, it would be easier to perform a P2P method than to tackle a full-synthesis full-synthesis of pseudoephedrine. pseudoephedrine. If one loves complex complex chemistry and has a knack for acquiring watched chemicals, this may be a pleasurable method. 2. Growing Ma Huang. The seeds can be purchased purchased legally and grown legally. It is a shrub that grows in in loose, sandy soil, and can be up to 10% pseudoephedrine ps eudoephedrine / ephedrine / norephedrine / norpseudoephedrine norpseudoephedrine by weight. weight. This means a pound of the plant plant can produce 45 grams of this mixture (which is primarily ephedrine and and pseudoephedrine). pseudoephedrine). This mixture is all all freebase, and extraction yields it as a waxy solid (unlike freebase meth, which is a liquid). Meth made from this shrub may have some l-meth mixed in, and will be around 10% speed rather than meth, might taste a little weird when smoking, but is as easy as growing a hardy plant. 3. Brewing Brewing ephedrine. ephedrine. Benzaldehyde (imitation almond almond extract) can can be added to yeast, yeast, which will turn turn it into l-PAC. 100g benzaldehyde benzaldehyde will hopefully produce 20-35g l-PAC. l-PAC. It is not not so simple, though. though. l-PAC must be be mixed with homemade homemade 118


methylamine (stinky but fully over-the-counter to make), and a mercury/aluminum mercury/aluminum catalyst, which produces l-ephedrine, which can finally be be treated exactly as purified pseudoephedrine. pseudoephedrine. It even produces pure d-meth! It turns the glorious one one pot AMMONICARB OPERATION into a smelly and several-pot procedure but can make a LOT LOT OF METH. METH. The dedicated operator will look seriously into all three options .

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APPENDIX H D-METH VS. L-METH / PSEUDOEPHEDRINE VS. EPHEDRINE

Here’s the simple truth: every time one thinks chemistry has finally been made simple, it suddenly is broken down into a new confusing confusing mess. This is, unfortunately, unfortunately, what the reader will now experience. experience. Remember the meth meth molecule? molecule?

Remember, this structure is meth, and meth is this molecule is actually actually structure. But, this is a flat drawing. The molecule 3D. Look at the below diagram.

On the left is l-meth l-meth or levomethamphetamine levomethamphetamine.. The dashed wedge means that the CH3 is pointed away from the reader. On the right, d-meth or dextromethamphetamine uses a solid black wedge to mean that the CH3 is pointed toward the reader. This tiny difference in the two forms of meth causes l-meth to be noticeably less potent and d-meth to be noticeably more so. So, there is no actual, plain, meth molecule. molecule. Each molecule molecule of meth is either the levo or the dextro version. Remember this key word; a 50/50 mixture of l-meth and dmeth is called racemic meth. This term pops up often. So, what about pseudoephedrine, pseudoephedrine, ephedrine, norephedrine, etc? Buckle up. Meth has two forms. Ephedrine has four forms. 120


Two are pseudoephedrine (d-pseudoephedrine and l pseudoephedrine) pseudoephedrine) and two are ephedrine (l-ephedrine and dephedrine). Both forms of pseudoephedrine pseudoephedrine and l-ephedrine turn into d-meth. d-ephedrine is is only formed formed by accidental mistreatment of l-ephedrine. Confusing? The author agrees. (And, FYI, norephedrine and norpseudoephedrine are another set of four versions that all produce amphetamine, aka study-longer pills aka prescription prescription speed). The point is: know that d-meth is better and comes from pseudoephedrine. pseudoephedrine. Leave it at that. that.

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APPENDIX I KEEPING CLEAN AND FEELING SAFE

Suspicious things have been produced from this procedure and need to be disposed of intelligently. intelligently. If one can can burn trash, do that instead. 1. Open the the bag with the battery guts. Snip them into tiny pieces with scissors and flush. 2. Put pseudoephedrine pseudoephedrine blisters blisters in a grocery grocery bag. Each time the the operator replaces the kitchen trash bag, he or she should s hould throw a handful of trash from the grocery bag into the new bag. 3. Coffee filters and sandwich bags should be snipped to tiny pieces and flushed. flushed. 4. Paper towels should be thoroughly rinsed of solvent and thrown in the trash. 5. ONE OR TWO empty bottles or bags of chemicals are disposed of per per week. week. Separate trash bags. bags. The best best way to dispose of larger bottles etc. is to snip them into pieces, shove in a sandwich bag, and stuff into a can can or something before throwing away. away. Thicker plastic can’t be flushed. 6. ONE OR TWO empty cans of starter fluid are disposed of per week. 7. Don’t go for a drive and throw this shit out the window. That’s gross and will get the operator caught. Don’t throw it in the neighbor’s trash. People will FREAK FREAK if they see trash that isn’t theirs and may call law enforcement.

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APPENDIX J ENVIRONMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS

Is one sad to be flushing trash and chemicals down the toilet? Well, the author of this procedure has two points. points. a) This is nothing compared to corporate pollution and environmental disaster. Ten million operators following this procedure wouldn’t harm the environment in a year as much as big business harms it in one month. Some camp fuel down a drain drain is a drop in the bucket. b) The DEA forced these reckless reckless procedures procedures upon meth users. users. All of the risk and impact of this procedure is the sole fault of the US government for its absolute failure in treating addiction.

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APPENDIX K EXTRACTION AND USE OF PROPYLHEXEDRINE

Propylhexedrine Propylhexedrine is sold over-the-counter (no pharmacist interaction required!) required!) in an allergy inhaler. One must be sure to acquire the inhaler with propylhexedrine; it is right next to the lmeth inhalers (yes, l-meth is so weak that it is sold OTC). The rush of propylhexedrine is decent, but again, IV USE WILL KILL INSTANTLY. INSTANTLY. This is a guide guide for making a smokable powder or crystal. It doesn’t last as long as meth and produ ces a coming down down from it. It’s a kind of agitation and discomfort upon coming good way to manage intense meth cravings and something fun to do, but the operator should not get his or her hopes up about this being an OTC OTC miracle drug. drug. The author believes believes this should be done for the experience of the operator primarily. This procedure should be followed before making meth, but after the entire guide has been read . THE AMMONICARB OPERATION includes all the chemistry lessons necessary to make this mini-procedure mini-procedure make sense. sense. Without those lessons, lessons, one may be very confused. confused. For this procedure (and very useful tutorial for extraction) one will need gasser (construction found in step 7 of PREPARATIONS PREPARATIONS THAT ARE NOT TIME SENSITIVE. SENSITIVE. Steps for completion of the gasser are then detailed once again for this appendix.) One will also also need the propylhexedrine propylhexedrine inhalers inhalers (0.25g propylhexedrine propylhexedrine per inhaler at $5-8 each, this procedure will work for as few as two and as as many as 16.) A nonpolar solvent solvent (for this, just use camp camp fuel. Starting fluid is more trouble than than it’s worth.) is required, vinegar, sodium hydroxide, plenty of water, a few coffee filters, a fork, some canning jars, salt, scissors, one large pickle jar, dried epsom salt, salt, and about five five sandwich bags (or more). Remember, muriatic muriatic acid and and calcium chloride are needed for gassing. The only smell is lavender oil, and HCl gas if one isn’t careful. 124


One should prepare the nonpolar solvent by putting about a liter in the pickle jar with a 1-2 inch layer of dried epsom salt at the bottom. (Remember: Epsom salt is dried dried in the oven oven for 2 hours hours at 400 Fahrenheit.) Fahrenheit.) Let the solvent solvent sit for 24 hours hours and shake every few hours. 1. Open the inhalers, pull the plastic pieces out, and toss the cotton into a jar. Avoid touching the cotton, as it’s sticky and oily. 2. Pour enough vinegar into the jar to cover the cotton and start “wring out” out” the mixture from mashing it with the fork. This will “wring the cotton. 3. Let it sit for five minutes, then pour this mixture mix ture through a coffee filter into the large pickle jar. 4. Wring the filter out into the jar. Pour new vinegar vinegar over the cotton, mash it, wait five minutes, and filter into the pickle jar. 5. Repeat step 4 at least two more times. Toss the cotton into the trash, as it’s not i llegal to be doing this. If one is paranoid, one one can flush the cotton one at a time down the toilet. toilet. It simply looks looks like cotton balls at the end of this procedure, however, so it’s not suspicious even if seen. 6. What the operator now has is a mixture of propylhexedrine acetic acid (a water-soluble form form of the drug. drug. It comes freebase freebase in the inhaler,) and a mixture of lavender and menthol m enthol oils. 7. Now, the operator pours about 50ml (100ml if 8+ inhalers used) nonpolar solvent (camp fuel) into the jar and shakes for two full minutes. This will separate separate the oils (they’ll go into the solvent) solvent) from the drug (which stays in water). 8. The layers may take a long time to separate separate due to the oil. If the 125

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layers stop separating, an emulsion has been formed, which means the operator operator should stir in a few tablespoons of of salt. This won’t happen when making meth, as oils aren’t dealt with, but is one major pain of these inhalers. 9. The liquids are poured into a plastic bag, the bottom corner is snipped, and the water layer (bottom layer) is poured into the big jar. The camp fuel fuel is discarded. discarded. 10. Steps 7-9 are repeated at at least three more times. That oil makes the smokable version nasty and medicinal, so one should be patient with the the solvent washes. washes. 11. The water water layer should should be mostly clear clear by now. Cloudiness is unavoidable, but if it’s hard to see through, more m ore washes may be necessary. 12. Now the propylhexedrine will be removed from the water by by freebasing. Add 100ml camp fuel and 50g sodium hydroxide (or 200ml camp fuel and 100g sodium hydroxide if 8+ inhalers were used.) The sodium hydroxide will freebase freebase the propylhexedrine, propylhexedrine, separating it from the acetic acid and moving it into the camp fuel. 13. Shake this this mixture for five full minutes. DO NOT shake shake until the sodium hydroxide has completely dissolved. 14. Allow the layers to separate. separate. If another emulsion emulsion was formed formed this time, then the final product will have some oil in it, but this is unlikely. 15. Pour into a sandwich bag bag and drain the the water layer. Store the solvent in a canning jar. 16. Repeat Repeat steps 12-15 one time. Store the new new portion of solvent solvent 126


in the same canning jar. 17. Now, this nonpolar solvent mixture will be given a rough dry to remove any water that may have found its way into the th e camp fuel. Add a one-inch layer of dry epsoms epsoms to the jar jar containing the camp fuel (with freebase propylhexedrine now dissolved in it.) Shake the jar for five minutes. 18. Pour through a filter, wring out the epsom salt into the jar and throw it away. 19. Now, the the gasser will be be finished and and used. Grab the bottle with the cap that has a latex tube inserted into it. Remove the cap, cap, and fill the bottle ½ full with calcium chloride. 20. Pour muriatic acid into the bo ttle until it’s about ¾ o f the height of the calcium chloride. 21. Let this sit for 2 minutes. minutes. It needs to start generating HCl gas. 22. Now, the motions of the next step must be done carefully, or the solvent will be sucked into the gasser. 23. a) hold the gasser in the dominant hand and the end of the latex tube in the other, b) put the end of the latex tube just below the surface of the the solvent, c) squeeze squeeze the gasser gasser gently. If bubbles don’t come from the end of the tube, there’s a leak and a new cap must be prepared. d) lift the tube out of the solvent AND THEN release the grip on the gasser. e) repeat. The reader of this procedure gets a tidbit of information not available in the main procedure! The reason gassing does nothing for the first minute or so (as in, forms no solids) is because excess excess sodium hydroxide hydroxide must be neutralized neutralized first. 127

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Do not let the liquid layer in the gasser go above the calcium chloride layer (caused by tipping or squeezing too hard or too low on the bottle.) bottle.) This will introduce introduce water vapor into the gas. 24. Keep repeating, repeating, being careful careful not to suck up solvent. It won’t destroy the gasser but it will mean substantially less yield. Once solids start forming (the solvent begins to look like li ke milk,) gas until it seems to have stopped.

25. Pour this liquid with tiny propylhexedrine crystals in it through a coffee filter. Save the solvent and gas it again. again. 26. Repeat step 25 until no more crystals/solids are formed (use the same filter). 27. Let Let the gasser sit for two minutes. Attempt gassing gassing again. If no crystals are formed, gassing is complete. 28. Let the coffee filter dry without a fan or heat . It can be gently blown on to speed speed drying. 29. Because of the presence of trace oil, it may be very ver y hard to turn propylhexedrine propylhexedrine into a crystal. crystal. Recrystallization can can be attempted, attempted, however. Place all all the powder into a shot glass. Add a tiny bit of hot denatured denatured alcohol (just enough enough to dissolve the powder). Put it in the freezer. freezer. In a few hours, check back; if crystals are are growing, good! If not, dump the mixture onto a plate and allow to evaporate back to a powder. 30. This can can now be smoked. smoked. It tastes similarly similarly to meth, but the lavender oil and menthol may throw the flavor off. 128


IF THE FIRST HIT MAKES ONE FEEL FAINT, FA INT, AGITATED/RESTLESS, OR MAKES THE HEART POUND, DISCONTINUE USE IMMEDIATELY IMMEDIATELY.

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APPENDIX L MOLECULAR MOLECULAR POLARITY The curious operator is not satisfied by the statement that all molecules are simply polar or nonpolar. The curious operator operator wants to know why, and the author of THE AMMONICARB OPERATION is proud of him or her for being being inquisitive. This is probably the most complex and and difficult concept concept to grasp in this guide, so be prepared. Here’s a brief introduction that will allo w the operator to look at a molecule and predict whether it’s polar or nonpolar. Let’s start with a comparison comparison between water and hexane (hexane is an ingredient of camp fuel .)

The diagram above may sort of make sense, or the reader may be totally lost. The reader should read the below paragraph, paragraph, which explains how to ‘read’ a molecular structure. Atoms (O and H for water, C and H for hexane) in a molecule are bonded together. Bonds (represented by lines) are made by sharing electrons; in the case of water, the electrons are ‘happy’ being shared between the two H’s (hydrogens) and the one shape of the the water molecule is due to the O (oxygen). The ‘bent’ shape nature of these bonds, which form a tetragon (a four-pointed 3D figure, look up a picture) around atoms, where each point on the tetragon is where where a bond can can form. Because only two points of the tetragon surrounding oxygen have bonds, the other two are empty space. This 3D, tetragonal tetragonal shape is also why hexane is a zig-zag. Each carbon atom in hexane (remember, there are six: one for each corner, and one on each end) forms four of these tetragon-oriented bonds. For a carbon carbon on the end, it looks like there there is only one one bond, but the other three three bonds are for hydrogen, hydrogen, which isn’t 130


shown in the diagram of hexane, because all those little H’s would take up too much space to write. In all (common) molecules, atoms follow these rules for bonding: Hydrogen Hydrogen (H) only forms one bond. bond. Chlorine (Cl) only forms one bond bond as well. Oxygen (O) (O) forms two bonds, Nitrogen (N) forms three, and Carbon (C) forms four. Only in rare, unstable molecules are these rules broken . So, back to polarity. polarity. Bonds between between carbon and and hydrogen and bonds between carbon and carbon (these two kinds of bonds are the only ones present in hexane), are nonpolar bonds. Bonds involving oxygen, nitrogen, chlorine, (and many other less common elements) are polar bonds. When polar bonds are present (and aren’t cancelled out), they result in a polar molecule. Some more advanced advanced examples are given given below. The author apologizes apologizes for subjecting the reader to more terrible, goofy diagrams. To the left is a molecule (tetrafluoromethane) (tetrafluoromethane) shown in a way that represents r epresents its 3D nature. Remember, the tetragon is a 3D structure, so an atom with four bonds is always always 3D. The solid black wedge means the F (fluorine) (fluorine) atom is ‘sticking out’ of the page, and the dashed wedge means the F is ‘behind’ the page. Bonds between carbon and fluorine are very polar, leading leading one to assume that tetrafluoromethane tetrafluoromethane could be a polar molecule. molecule. In fact, these polar bonds cancel each other out . This is why molecular geometry is never cut-and-dry, and being an expert on polarity polarity is impossible without math and and research. Now, let’s look at the meth molecule again , but this time, the 3D structure of it will be used (that of d- meth, the ‘good’ form of meth.)

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The reader should take a moment to look at this structure and apply the above above lessons to it. Remember, all all the corners are are carbons. Where Where are the polar polar ponds? Is this molecule molecule polar? Double lines are double bonds, meaning two of the points of the tetragon are used for one bond . Below is the same molecule, molecule, but but with numbers next to some of the atoms.

1. The atom here here is a carbon (C). (C). The reader will will remember that in molecular structures, the corners all represent carbon atoms, and also that each carbon must have 4 bonds. This carbon is a) double bonded bonded to the above above carbon and b) single bonded to the below carbon. This means that 3 of the available bonds have been b een used, so the leftover (and not pictured) bond is to a hydrogen atom. Again, hydrogen atoms are not always shown. 2. This atom (a carbon, because it’s at a corner) has a double bond and two single bonds. That means it has all 4 bonds taken up, so there is no hydrogen attached. 3. This carbon atom has three single bonds. The fourth bond is another one of those not-pictured hydrogens, which three-dimensionally would be located ‘behind’ the page. 132


4. This is the only atom in meth that is not carbon or hydrogen. Remember, nitrogen atoms only form 3 bonds, so the two single bonds (plus the H, which is shown this time) take up all three. All three of of these bonds are are polar (keep this in mind for later). 5. This atom is shown but doesn’t need to be. Since it’s one of the ‘ends’ of the structure, it could could be left out. To demonstrate, the below image is correct as well.

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can have nonpolar regions AND polar regions, meaning they can behave differently differently depending on what’s going on. As it turns out, the polar area is not significant enough to make meth a polar molecule . Strangely, however, the polar area is significant enough to do some special special things. things. Namely, the nitrogen is willing to ‘stick’ to acids . Look at the following diagram.

In the above diagram, on the left, is the same d-meth molecule from before. before. On the right is a black dot followed followed by a hydrogenhydrogenchlorine bond. bond. The hydrogen-chlorine hydrogen-chlorine is the structure of hydrochloric acid , also known as muriatic acid or simply HCl. The dot, on the other hand, is made to let the viewer know that these things are complexed, or stuck to one another . One will remember from the main procedure that freebase meth (the compound without the attached HCl) is a nonpolar molecule that, at room temperature, is present as an oily oil y liquid that dissolves easily into into nonpolar solvents. Methamphetamine Methamphetamine HCl, as the above structure is called, is the crystal meth that meth users are familiar with, forming translucent/white crystals that dissolve in water. Again, the N (nitrogen) in the meth molecule has a mildly enough to be a ‘polar polar behavior. It doesn’t make meth polar enough compound,’ but allows for the formation of the above comple x, which is completely polar. So then, why must nonpolar compounds (if one has not gathered, compound and molecule are two words which are practically interchangeable) be dissolved by nonpolar solvents, 134


and polar compounds compounds by polar solvents? Consider the following following example: One places 500 500 small magnets magnets into a bucket. These represent represent polar molecules molecules (think, magnets have two poles ). All the magnets arrange and stick to one another. another. One could even even imagine picking picking up this mass of magnets, with all the magnets holding together as one giant hard hard blob. Think of this as a crystal of meth HCl; a bunch of little magnets stuck together that form a solid crystal. crystal. Now, what tool would one rather use to break this blob up: up: a wooden stick or or a large magnet? magnet? Well, the stick could knock a few magnets off, but a large magnet would truly t ruly disrupt the arrangement of of the 500 small magnets. The large magnet magnet is a polar solvent, and the wooden stick is a nonpolar solvent: the polar solvent dissolves (think: disassembles) the polar molecule. Now, imagine imagine 500 twigs in a bucket. These These represent a nonpolar compound, like freebase meth. Now, the large magnet (polar solvent) does no good, while the wooden stick (nonpolar solvent) can go in and knock the twigs out of order (again, disassemble) very easily. And, as crude and childish as the above example sounds, it truly does reflect the nature of the polarity of o f solvents and their interactions with with the polarity of compounds. Because the author author cannot spend 20 pages on further explanations, this appendix must be wrapped up. Remember the key points tackled by this appendix: 1. C-H and C-C bonds are nonpolar, while bonds involving N, O, Cl, F, etc. ARE polar. 2. A molecule/compound that has polar bonds is probably a polar compound, unless: a) the ‘polar area’ of the compound is a lot smaller t han the ‘nonpolar area’ b) the polar bonds are all in different directions, directions, thus canceling canceling each other out 135

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APPENDIX M QUICK PROCEDURE Amounts (and key details ) are omitted from this appendix because it is meant as quick reference, not as a substitute for the in-depth procedure. If one (the author refuses to refer to this type of person as an operator) attempts to use Appendix M in place of the main procedure, that person will produce no meth at best, and die/go to prison at worst. Anyway, the operator may use this as a refresher. refresher. This squeezes the procedure into one page, but but upon reading, one will quickly realize that this appendix will not stand alone as instructions and will produce zero meth without reading the main guide . 1. Obtain all the materials listed in APPENDIX A. 2. Prepare, test, clean and inspect the fire extinguisher. 3. Prepare the ammonium carbonate. 4. Bake epsoms, use to dry some acetone and denatured alcohol. 5. Make GUPs (pulverize pills). 6. Weigh ammonium carbonate and sodium hydroxide. 7. Prepare gasser. 8. Prepare steel wool. 9. Prepare drying tube. 10. Empty, clean, and dry pickle jars. RIGHT BEFORE REACTION 11. Prepare Prepare MAIN SOLVENT and RINSE SOLVENT. SOLVENT. Dry both. 12. Boil water. 13. Prepare acid bucket and ice water bucket. 14. Clean and organize workspace. 15. Reread procedure. REACTION 16. Add ammonium carbonate, sodium hydroxide, h ydroxide, and MAIN SOLVENT and seal fex 17. Heat in boiling water on top of cloth until pressure stops rising. 18. Air cool 2min, swirl in ice water 1hr. 19. Vent, open, add lithium and GUPs and seal. 137

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20. Swirl in ice water 1hr. 21. Vent, open, pour though steel wool into pickle jar. EXTRACT METH 22. Water wash. 23. Dry fluid. 24. Complete gasser and gas. 25. Acetone wash. 26. Recrystallize. 27. Clean fex. 28. Dispose of trash according to guide. 29. DON’T BRAG AND KEEP QUIET.

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APPENDIX N WHY ONE SHOULD NEVER SHARE TRADEMARKED NAMES

There are three things one may notice about the writing style of the author of this material when reading this document. One, the author never uses first person pronouns and blends third person and imperative imperative points of view view rather than than the commonly author makes rampant use of parentheses used, ‘you.’ Second, the author (the author intends intends it as a method method of organizing organizing thoughts). Third, the author does not state ANY product or store brand names, other than the ones not usable by this procedure. The first two things things are simply quirks of the author’s writing style. st yle. The third is deliberate and extremely important, important, for both this writing and all discussion of this procedure and drug making in general.

DISCUSSING TRADEMARKED NAMES GIVES THE DEA DOCUMENTED EVIDENCE, THUS ‘REASONABLE CAUSE’ TO PUSH FOR REMOVAL OF THESE ITEMS FROM OVER-THE-COUNTER SALE. FOR EVERY CHEMICAL THE COMMENTATOR STUPIDLY AND RECKLESSLY REFERS TO BY BRAND NAME, THAT CHEMICAL BECOMES ONE STEP CLOSER TO BEING REMOVED FROM SHELVES. THE COMMENTATOR, IF POSTING BRAND NAMES IN PUBLIC FORUMS, WILL RUIN THIS PROCEDURE 139

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FOR EVERYBODY. ONLY PRIVATE MESSAGES MAY BE USED TO SHARE BRAND INFORMATION. AS SOON AS THE BRAND NAME FOR CALCIUM CHLORIDE (FOR EXAMPLE) IS THROWN ALL ACROSS THE WEB, ONE CAN EXPECT TO SEE IT VANISH FROM SHELVES. THE AUTHOR DOES NOT WANT THE SECOND EDITION OF THIS DOCUMENT TO HAVE TEN PAGES ON PREPARING ONE’S OWN CALCIUM CHLORIDE. AS SOON AS THE NAME OF THE PHARMACY THAT SELLS THE BEST PSEUDOEPHEDRINE IS THROWN ALL ACROSS THE WEB, EXPECT ITS FORMULA TO BE CHANGED OVERNIGHT. DO. NOT. FUCK. THIS. UP.

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APPENDIX O BEWARE: LAW ENFORCEMENT MAY HAVE TAMPERED WITH THIS DOCUMENT

Imagine for a moment that one comes into possession of this document after finding it at random online, and decides to attempt following it. The operator follows the instructions perfectly, notes every rule and and reads every appendix, and then is blown to pieces. This is what may occur if law enforcement decides to crack down on this document, assuming it is ever popular enough to be considered a ‘problem’. Since the DEA cannot c annot arbitrarily declare martial law nor simply murder drug users execution-style (although the author is describing DEA agents’ wet dreams), the agency must create a sensationalist frenzy of misinformation and public outrage, outrage, allowing for discrete violations of constitutional rights, thus forcing the production of personal-use drugs to once more bend the knee to the will of the government puppet-master known as THE THE PHARMACEUTICAL PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY. That is a very very long sentence, and basically means that law enforcement needs a few people to die from doctored instructions so that their agenda can be pushed. Of course, it would quickly come to light that t hat a doctored version of the guide had been used instead i nstead of the authentic version, but it would be too late. Once Once again, meth meth users would be pushed further down, and even more deadly and environmentally toxic methods would be required to manufacture the drug. This is not intended to scare the reader into purchasing the document by legitimate means. If one has received this document without paying, one should just be sure that it was received from a trusted source . Don’t be the doofus who found this document as a fileshare link on one of those lawless image boards and is tricked into making a bomb or something. Being dead may or may not be an 141

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APPENDIX P MAKING OTHER DRUGS The author of this procedure can assure the reader that there is no good news news in this appendix. appendix. When it comes to manufacturing manufacturing drugs, the painful truth is that meth is the only one that hardware store chemicals chemicals and fire fire extinguishers can produce. produce. MDA and MDMA can be made, but even those require many more steps (and a few college college chemistry courses) courses) to manufacture. manufacture. To explain why this is, the author will direct the reader to the below explanation. The way one writes meth is C 10H15 N. This means ten carbons, fifteen hydrogens, and one nitrogen. The way one writes cocaine is C17H21 NO4. Looks more complicated, doesn’t it? More carbons, hydrogens, and even four oxygens thrown in. Well, a cocaine molecule is about three times the size of a meth molecule, so yes, it is indeed much more complicated. Molecular complexity is like this: nature and biology can make UNBELIEVABLY complex molecules like it’s nothing. Human science struggles coming up with methods of popping the extra oxygen off pseudoephedrine to make meth. Heroin is even more complex, with C21H23 NO5 as its structure. LSD is C20H25 N3O. THC in marijuana marijuana is C21H30O2. As the reader can see, there’s a pattern among most drugs, and meth is the exception to this pattern, not the rule. Meth is of course the favorite drug of the author of this procedure, but the author understands that many may may be disappointed by this realization. These complex complex drugs can be synthesized in many steps, and with many chemicals, and with lots of laboratory expertise, but it is far more costeffective to simply extract cocaine from coca leaves, extract heroin from poppies, and extract lysergic acid from ergot. Here’s the kicker. kicker. If the reader reader thought that that the ‘big’ drugs drugs were big, he or she should look at the structure for hemoglobin, the stuff that makes blood red: C2932H4724 N828O840S8Fe4. It’s pretty terrifying to imagine synthesizing s ynthesizing something like that. 143

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APPENDIX Q EPSOM SALT AND OTHER DESICCANTS

The author of this procedure provides an enormous amount of detail on almost every chemical used, but seems to skip entirely over the function of water-removal compounds, such as epsom salt, calcium chloride, and sodium hydroxide. This was done to avoid bogging down the procedure with the ‘accessory’ chemistry that doesn’t relate directly to the prod uction of meth, but for the curious operator (the author’s favorite kind of operator), some information on these drying agents, in particular epsom salt, is discussed in this appendix. Epsom salt is simply the name for commercially commercially available magnesium sulfate. sulfate. Magnesium sulfate sulfate is an inorganic compound compound that behaves in a particularly useful way. While its chemical chemical formula is simplified to MgSO4, it is usually purchased as sulfate, being a MgSO4•7H2O. This is ‘hydrated’ magnesium sulfate, combination of seven water molecules for each unit of magnesium sulfate, while the first formula given is the anhydrous form, the form made by heating it in the oven at 400 Fahrenheit. The anhydrous form, pure MgSO 4, is hygroscopic, meaning it readily absorbs any nearby water molecules to form the hydrated version. Each gram of the anhydrous compound will readily absorb just over one gram of water, fully integrating in tegrating the water into its chemical structure. structure. This is why, even though it appears as a dry solid when purchased, it is actually about 50% water by mass and must be dried to be useful. Sodium hydroxide, the desiccant used to remove the water byproduct during during the reaction, behaves differently. differently. Not only is it necessary for freebasing pseudoephedrine, it also absorbs water much more quickly. quickly. The only reason reason sodium hydroxide is not not used for the entire procedure is due to its tendency to lye-lock, or reform from grains into solid chunks. Lye-lock isn’t a problem 145

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during the reaction but would block a drying dr ying tube, and would generally be much more expensive and hazardous to handle throughout the procedure. There could be applications where epsom salt and sodium hydroxide could be used interchangeably, or as mixtures, but the author of this procedure has not attempted such things and will not condone alterations to this procedure as it is presented. Calcium chloride, on the other hand, becomes soggy and dissolves quickly in solution. For that reason, reason, it can only be used reliably to to dry gasses. For instance, in the gassing device made in this procedure, the operator will notice the mixture of muriatic acid and calcium chloride turn to an off-white sludge. So, why is calcium chloride used rather than sodium hydroxide or epsom salt? Well, solid sodium sodium hydroxide will react violently with concentrated acid, and calcium chloride absorbs moisture incredibly incredibly rapidly. So rapidly, in fact, that 37% muriatic acid (the concentration available from the hardware store) becomes 40-50% concentrated concentrated almost almost immediately upon contact. Muriatic acid solutions are unstable above 37%, so the liquid rapidly rejects HCl as a gas gas to maintain the highest stable concentration. The luid or any solvent it’s sludge, which would ruin the reaction f luid exposed to, is contained in the water bottle.

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APPENDIX R COMMON CUTS IN METH AND IDENTIFYING REAL METH

As this document ends, the author believes that one o ne may find this last piece of information to be useful. There are two cuts common in meth: n-isopropylbenzylamine n-isopropylbenzylamine and msm. N-isopropylbenzylamine, N-isopropylbenzylamine, commonly commonly referred to as n-iso, iso, or even ‘sleepy dope,’ is a harmful and toxic substance used by Mexican cartels to reduce their supposed “super -meth” to less than 20% actual meth. It causes a brief rush followed followed by tiredness, tiredness, bursts of confusion, confusion, needle-like or electric-shock-like electric-shock-like feelings in the extremities, and immense, uncontrollable cravings for meth . It is used primarily for this bolded reason, as it increases sales. Additionally, its presence is rarely detected as the user tends to believe that his or her tolerance tolerance to meth has simply simply increased. While information was once available to the public, it is now only referenced by a few online forum posts, leading some so me to believe in a conspiracy about its existence and and use as a part of the ‘war on drugs’ money-making scheme. The author doesn’t wish to delve any further. Msm, a totally harmless dietary supplement, is the more commonly used American cut. It crystallizes along with meth and is mostly flavorless. In-depth guides to detecting and removing cuts are available and should be used, as the author has h as limited expertise (the author doesn’t doesn’t deal with cuts because of this this procedure). The author can however point out that large, flat, thin, and perfectlyclear crystals means the meth is entirely or at least 80% n-iso. Additionally, crack-back from meth should (within seconds) form large patterns the presence of jagged, small or inconsistent crystals that take a long time to form (i.e. the substance stays melted for a long time) indicates indicates n-iso cut. N-iso is unpleasant unpleasant to snort (burns (burns like meth but also makes one gag) and dissolves slowly in water (meth dissolves dissolves almost instantaneously instantaneously). ). The last note note that the 147

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APPENDIX S CONTACTING HMLIHYC, THE AUTHOR

Email can be sent to [email protected]. [email protected]. There is no other way to to contact HMLIHYC. HMLIHYC. If any online presence claims claims to be HMLIHYC, HMLIHYC, do not believe believe them unless an email from HMLIHYC specifically confirms its validity. APPENDIX T FINAL INFORMATION

The sources of all supposed information in this document are the author’s own experience, education education and Wikipedia. All diagrams have been drawn by the author, except for the meth molecule, which is a public domain image available from Wikipedia. THE AMMONICARB OPERATION is a fictitious piece of creative writing, and any similarities with any other writings or information are purely coincidental. All rights for this document are reserved by the author. author.

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